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! …
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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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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #9 / Ten Things I Learned on My Way to Market
Are you almost finished writing your book? Are you dreading the thought of marketing? Do you need tips to save your sanity about how to handle your tub-full of books when they arrive? I'm not the little piggie that went to market, but I am the piggie that stayed home and planned, down to minute …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #8 – Giveaway Copies
Are you an empty nester? Are you trying to lose weight? These are just a few of the fun things that Pam Lofton, the host of this blog tour, writes about on her blog, Empty Nest. Her review of Caring Lessons nails what my friend Marianna and I were hoping when we began writing our …
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Macy’s Flower Show – Chicago – 2012 – Celebrates Brazil
Macy's Flower Show is at the State Street store through Saturday, April 4. Getting off the elevator on the 9th floor, we encountered a friendly guide who directed us through the cavernous space to the show. This floor, most of which is normally vacant, has been transformed for the first time into a cheerful wine …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #7 / Ten Tips to Finish Your Book
Are you almost ready to finish writing your book? I compiled ten tips that helped me finish Caring Lessons. Check them out on Julie Lindsey's blog, Musings From the Slushpile, the seventh stop on the author blog tour for Caring Lessons. Plan ahead. Think about gifts for those special nurses in your life. National Nurses …
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A Late Onset Identity Crisis
May 31st is the deadline for renewing my license as a registered nurse, a license I’ve held for fifty years. For two years, I’ve been preparing myself that my golden anniversary would be a memorable time to let it expire. After all, I retired from working full-time twelve years ago and haven’t even volunteered to …
Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #6
First, thanks to all who stopped in today to read my post of this morning on living lighter. It's sweet and comforting to know that so many of us are in this health conscious run together! Today's author blog tour stop for Caring Lessons is with Laura McClellan at I Was Just Thinking.... No interview …
Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #5 / Giveaway
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 …
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Chicago – St. Patrick’s Day – 2012 – Slideshow
In the slideshow below, follow Marv and me as we walked from the greening (dyeing) of the Chicago River, past a lone bird's nest in barren branches, past the hopeful sign of new construction, through Mariano's grocery, to a final shot from our terrace of the start of the parade. Come on over. The door …
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