With many thanks to Heidi McLaughlin, international speaker and author of Sand to Pearls: Making Bold Choices to Enrich Your Life and Beauty Unleashed: Transforming a Woman's Soul, I present her new review of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self on Amazon: This book intrigued me. I am not a nurse, …
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The International Christian Retail Show started for me with a warm greeting from Bill and Nancie Carmichael from Deep River Books, my publisher. They sponsored a dinner (yummy salmon) for their authors and guests at the Westin in Atlanta. My guest, from the friendship theme in Caring Lessons, was Marianna Crane. After dinner, Bill invited …
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One big blessing is the best way I can describe my experience at the International Christian Retail Show last week in Atlanta. My friend Marianna Crane, featured in Caring Lessons, and I arrived within minutes of each other and met up at a Delta gate. We hadn’t seen each other in over a year, and …
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Getting ready for Atlanta next week. Meeting up with the publisher of Caring Lessons, Deep River Books, at the International Christian Retail Show (check out the impressive list of exhibitors). Looking forward to media interviews and book signings. And to hanging out with my friend Marianna who will join me (and who plays a starring …
I was thrilled yesterday (5/30/11) to find an article titled “Jobs in Health Care on the Rise” in the Business section of the Chicago Tribune. In a discussion of the need for more doctors, Christopher J. Gearon notes that more of their jobs are being held by nurse practitioners and physician assistants who also are …
Did you know that 60 million Americans are diagnosed with a mental health condition in any given year, that’s 1in4. Learn more at http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go/may. Read the simple "handout" above to see what you can learn and how you can help friends or family members living with mental illness. With a simple gesture of increasing our …
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"Write what you know" was standard advice in the writing classes I took as a beginning writer. I felt smug about the advice because I was planning to write a memoir of my nursing career, so, naturally, I knew my topic from head to toe very well. I did not hear a second part to …
The e-mail was unexpected. The subject line - "Looks like we're having cereal for supper cuz Mom can't stop reading this book:)" - stopped my hand on the mouse. Should I open it? The sender's name, Amy Nagelkirk, was not familiar. Amy identified herself as a former nursing student of mine, since married, at Trinity …
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