Countdown – 13 Weeks Until Publication

Caring Lessons will become a reality soon! One more page-the back cover--to proof and it's off to the publisher. Today I was shredding stuff (still working on those boxes) and old evaluations were among the pile. Evals, we called them, that we as faculty got from students (almost every 7 weeks of the nearly 20 …

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Countdown – 15 Weeks Until Publication

I feel a bit silly announcing that in 15 weeks Caring Lessons should come out, because I'm still not finished proofing the galley. I've gotten totally sidetracked with family stuff, fun things that make me stop and reflect on the meaning of life, death, and retirement--and about everything else that confronts us on our journeys. …

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Countdown – 17 Weeks Until Publication!

If all goes as planned, Caring Lessons will come out on October 1, 2010, 17 weeks from today. (It may even come out a little sooner, but I'll do my countdown on the original projection.) So each Friday from now on, I'll be adding another excerpt from one or two chapters. See today's excerpt from …

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Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey of Faith and Self

My book, Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey of Faith and Self, is already available for pre-orders on Amazon, and is scheduled for release in October 2010. Imagine not wanting to be a nurse, teacher, or teacher of psychiatric nursing only to find yourself doing all three--and loving it! In Caring Lessons, I share my …

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