One Widow’s Mural for Health Care

Julie Greicius bio ↓ · August 7th, 2009 · filed under art, politics

“These days you can usually find Regina Holliday in a parking lot between the BP station and the CVS near the Politics and Prose bookstore. She’s painting a 20-foot-high mural, showing her husband on his deathbed, to draw attention to the failings of the health system.”

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post tells Holliday’s story. And check out Holliday’s medical advocacy blog for more details.

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Julie Greicius is the Senior Literary Editor and a regular contributor for The Rumpus. She works as ghostwriter by day and a licensed (really) hula hoop instructor and performer by night. She has an MFA in writing from Columbia University and lives with her husband and two children in Palo Alto, California. Follow her on Twitter. More from this author →

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