Article February 15, 2005

Never too late to do work that's great

Barbara Whitewater

Originally appeared on spirituality.com

“When I would tell someone that I was just starting nursing school,” Esta Grollman told me, “they’d say, ‘At your age?’”

Esta was in her late 30s when she decided to become a nurse. She had always been a nurturing, meticulous, resourceful woman with a quiet and quick sense of humor. So you’d think she could have gotten her start earlier. But even after early exposure to nursing, she didn’t think she was qualified.

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