So, during this past winter of COVID, while many people wiled away their excess free time reading books or binge-watching Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu, I passed the time sitting in emergency departments and physician waiting rooms.
Hey, a gal’s gotta be somewhere, right? … More The Year My Warranty Expired
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Patti Samar If Pam Baunoch and Becky Mayes are nothing else, they are ready. Ready and willing to … More PAM BAUNOCH & BECKY MAYES: Managing Emergencies
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Dale Hemmila Christine Robinet is a doer. A nurse practitioner at Physician HealthCare Network’s Macomb Family Practice, Robinet … More CHRISTINE ROBINET: Protecting Patients
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Dale Hemmila Early on in the Coronavirus 19 pandemic, if you found yourself nearly a thousand miles from … More SARAH VANDERHEUVEL: Stepping Up
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Patti Samar As a woman of color, Jessica Totty has moved through the world very differently than her … More JESSICA TOTTY: Open Dialogue
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Patti Samar Jennifer Michaluk and Elizabeth King do not remember much of the months of March and April. … More JENNIFER MICHALUK & ELIZABETH KING: Essential Staff
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Patti Samar Just like in any profession, there are physicians who are good at their jobs, and then … More ANNETTE MERCATANTE, M.D.: Keeping Us Safe
By Dale Hemmila Life, like a good book, sometimes it takes a chapter or two before the real story — the good stuff — really begins. Just ask award-winning singer and songwriter Julianne Ankley. The Jeddo-native did not start singing in public until she was in her 30s. Since that time, she has spent the … More JULIANNE ANKLEY: Musically Talented
By Patti Samar Editor/Publisher Ila Shoulders is a woman driven by faith. Faith in the Lord has helped her through life’s ups and downs. And, over the past 100 years of her life, Shoulders has had reason to question that faith – and she’s certainly been given reason to question her faith in humanity itself … More ILA SHOULDERS: A Century of Civic Leadership
By Patti Samar Editor/Publisher Slow but steady wins the race. That cliché sums up the career of Port Huron Police Department Captain Marcy Kuehn. After joining the department in 1989 just a few months following her high school graduation, Kuehn slowly but surely completed her education – she eventually earned a master’s degree – all … More MARCY KUEHN: Problem Solver