Each book reviewer on this ten-stop tour takes a slightly different approach. The blogger today, Kathy, at I am a Reader, Not a Writer asked me to answer questions. So, if you're following regularly, click on the link, and I'm sure you'll find something surprising. Like, What would I rather do: text or talk? She's …
Continue reading Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #5 / Giveaway
First of all, welcome to my new followers! I'll be checking into your blogs real soon. Also to new readers--from around the world. It's exciting to see your visits to this Chicago-based blog on the Cluster Map on the side bar. Today's author blog tour stop for Caring Lessons is with Molly Edwards at Reviews …
Today's author blog tour stop for Caring Lessons is with Jerri Ann Reason, a dynamic mom who brings all sorts of pertinent information to her readers on her "mom-e-centric" blog. She asked that I write a guest post about when I was a mom of young kids.The title is "Keeping Your ME While Being a …
Today, Caring Lessons is reviewed by Mason Canyon on her blog, Thoughts in Progress. Read her review here. My guest post for this blogger is about the importance of belonging to a writing group. It is most fitting for me to share with you now that one member of our group, Pepper Furey, passed away …
Continue reading Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #2 / Tribute to Pepper Furey
I'm thrilled to tell you that Jodi Webb at WOW-Women on Writing has launched my blog tour for Caring Lessons. Read about it here. WOW! Nice work, Jodi! Thank you! Plan ahead. National Nurses Week is just around the corner, May 6-12. It's gift time! Buy a copy of Caring Lessons and help promote and …
Remember not so long ago when you'd go to a bookstore and hear readings by authors? Now another form of getting to know the author is available: the book blog tour. Caring Lessons was out awhile before I stumbled on information about WOW-Women on Writing on the SheWrites site for women writers. WOW was highly …
Continue reading Announcing: Caring Lessons Blog Tour Starts 3/12
Twenty years ago, I wrote a dissertation to complete the requirements for a PhD in nursing. A flurry followed where I presented papers and posters at conferences on my research. Eight years later, in 1999, I published some of the results in a refereed journal. A highlight for me. Jump to now. A colleague is …
I hate to do this to you twice in one month, but duty calls. The Midwest has gotten too snowy, too cold, too gray. So we're heading to Aruba. Stay warm everyone. We're going armed with books, so I should have some good book reports when I return. And stay tuned for my book blog …
Many thanks to Elizabeth Triezenberg, MSN, RN, CNL at Trinity Health for the following endorsement of Caring Lessons that arrived today. And thanks to the entire group of nurses at Trinity Health who have purchased and read Caring Lessons. I appreciate the support of each one of you and wish you every success on your …
Continue reading New Endorsement for Caring Lessons / From a Clinical Nurse Leader
I have to share some happy news! In 1983, we moved from one Chicago suburb to another to be near my new teaching position at Trinity Christian College. Our kids went to high school down the street. By 1994, Marv and I found ourselves empty nested, but continued to live in our home until 2005. …
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