Wishing you a happy healthy new year! Read the following tips from the Huffington Post that we all know but can stand to read once again... Susan Blumenthal, M.D.: New Year's Eve 2011: 12 Tips for a Healthier You.
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Christmas Eve Day Greetings
To my blog subscribers and other readers, I wish you a blessed Christmas. Some suggestions: 1. Take time to think of what the holiday is really about. 2. Quiet down and make a list of things for which you are thankful. 3. Take out the list during the year when you realize you are in …
Check out elderchicks.com!
Need some good company today? Come along with me and check out the ElderChicks website. This site is for women like me ("older" shall I say?) who delight in our retired lives and want to read about others like us and/or to share our own stories about how, according to the site, we are "living …
Nurses Supporting Nurses – Again
I've heard this phrase before when I've been promoting Caring Lessons, but I had another special occasion to hear it last Saturday night. I was sitting with my books at the registration table of a holiday party for nurses. Members and guests of District 20 of the Illinois Nurses Association. In the mid-nineties I was …
Fun endorsement from a former nursing student!
Hey Lois! Got your book in the mail yesterday and I can't put it down! I haven't heard your voice in 18 years, but as I read this book I hear it like I'm 20 years old again sitting in your class at TCC. I've missed your wisdom, your stories and your integrity more than …
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Meet Krystyna-hairdresser, salesperson, friend!
"You need a hairdresser?" a friend asked me one wintry day over a cozy lunch when I was complaining that mine had run off to Europe. "I have the best," she said. "My memory is short, so when you get home, e-mail me, and I'll give you her phone number." Now, that "best" hairdresser has …
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Grace…
Marv and I have had an unexpected detour in our lives. So I ask you, what would you call it if: 1. your husband is scheduled for an elective surgery that he could have chosen not to get and, during the pre-op work-up, something suspicious shows up on the test results that requires follow-up? 2. …
“Caring Lessons” Book Launch Party
"That is great that you thought of having a book launch party, Lois," a newly published author friend of mine told me recently. "I wish I would have thought of it. And now it's too late." I sort of always knew that if I ever got my book published, I would have to do something …
Imagine having 65 friends for lunch–
imagine the laughter, conversation, and, in some cases, tears. Now imagine that all your guests are nurses like you are. And that you all have similar experiences in common. Do you feel a bond coming on? A rope irresistibly looping you together? One that you're hesitant to ever sever again? That's what it was like …
Three weeks ago today…
Caring Lessons arrived in Chicago. Our kitchen bar has been transformed into a mail room; Marv is now my post office runner. And, with my trip to Grand Rapids, MI, last weekend, I've met lots of heartwarming old friends from high school (South Christian) and nurses' training (Blodgett Memorial Hospital School of Nursing). Plus new …
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