It’s August 1 today and my body is automatically going into back-to-school mode. For about half of my seventy years, either as a student myself or as a teacher of nursing students, I’d spend August assessing my wardrobe from next-to-skin to outerwear. Then I’d shop. My wardrobe had to be in place before school started …
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“What’s Love Got to Do with It? A Field Guide to the…
Sentence in Poetry and Prose" was the catchy title faculty member Juliet Patterson chose for the week session I just completed at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. The festival, held on the University of Iowa's campus in Iowa City, is enjoying its twenty-sixth year. Starting in 2001, I've attended the festival seven times and taken …
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Review of Caring Lessons by Mary A. Osborne, Nurse and Author
I'm happy to present a recent Amazon review of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self by Mary A. Osborne, nurse and author of Nonna's Book of Fiction, titled A Purpose Driven Life: It is an act of bravery to reveal one's life story in detail, to express one's struggles and fears …
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Caregivers Write Your Stories (#1)
So, you’ve thought about writing your stories, but you certainly don’t have time. And you have no idea how to start anyway. Excuses. Last Wednesday at the Palos Heights Public Library (IL), participants in Caregivers Share Your Story learned they could start writing their stories in only ten minutes. Caregivers can include all of us–we …
Caring Lessons – Blog Tour Over – What Next?
I'm finished, " I announced to my husband late last week. Always appearing a bit skeptical when I make such announcements, he said, "With me, or what?" Of course, I had to say not with him, not with our fiftieth wedding anniversary coming up--I mean why would I trade down when we have a good …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Final Stop
"You don't need to be in the health care industry or education to like it," writes Becky Povich, the tour host for this last stop, in her short and sweet review of Caring Lessons: A Professor's Journey of Faith and Self. Last week Wednesday, I introduced you to Becky's blog, her prolific writing, and her …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #13 – More about Mental Ilness
Chynna Laird gets it. She understands my passion for nursing and mental health nursing. In fact, it is her passion to help children and families living with special needs, "especially those living with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and bipolar disorder." Chynna is the tour host today for Caring Lessons. I can tell she "gets it" …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #12 – Changing Minds about Mental Ilness
"Changing Minds about Mental Illness" is a topic close to my heart. For a few reasons why, read my guest post on this tour's site today. Also, please read this short essay to find out what you can do to help individuals living with mental illness and their families. If you're a writer and interested …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #11
Two in one day??? Yes, there are two blog tour stops today. The tour will be over a week from today, so savor this opportunity to discover the blogs of these varied and interesting book-loving women. This afternoon's blogger, Audry Feyer, is a woman after my own heart. She lives with a John Deere fanatic! …
Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #10 / Hot Fudge Friends
Today, I'm all about being an older woman who wears purple, albeit with no red hat on my head, and who is thankful for my long-term friendship with Marianna, a person with whom I've walked many miles of fun and silliness and tanked in hard-to-fathom-at-the-time sorrows. So for today's Caring Lessons blog tour, when I …
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Write Along with Me 