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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"Where were you the day that Kennedy died?" my dinner guest asked me recently. I wondered why she wanted to know, but, as most of us who were alive then, I could remember exactly. "Sitting at my sister's kitchen table, " I said. "I know you weren't at work that night. And I missed you." …
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 …
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 …
For twenty-some years I taught nursing students. The curriculum in the four colleges where I taught addressed the different roles of the nurse, such as the nurse as caregiver, teacher, researcher, leader. Not once--and I chaired or had input into curriculum committees all of those years--did I think of addressing the potential role of the …
A note from my Facebook page yesterday: "I'm eager to "promote nursing" again and to see old and new friends at Hope College tomorrow night-April 13, 6:30pm, Science Center, Room 1000. I feel like that old saying about farm boys--you can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of …
I'm happy to share a review of Caring Lessons by Carol Breems, a former teacher and long-time friend of one of my older sisters. ~~~ This holiday time, I spent time reading your wonderful book. Just wanted you to know how meaningful it was to me. You have found a new career - your style …
These January book readings are listed under my Events page, but I'm putting them in a post so you can see them without an extra click. The last two are open to the public. Hope to see some of you there! Advance notice: save Sunday, February 13, 4:30pm, for a reading at Women & Children …
Facebook? Never, I said. But you'd think I'd have learned by now to never say never. On August 14 of last year, I wrote a list of things on this blog that I was planning to do to promote my nursing memoir Caring Lessons. I've completed most of them now, but joining Facebook, a very …
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