Caring Lessons Now #4 Yesterday, on my way to the radio interview in Elgin, I took the bus to Union Station where I presented my Reduced Fare (seniors) CTA card, sporting a photo ID, to the ticket agent. He looked at it, glanced up at me, and said, "You pickin' this up for your ma?" …
Category: memoir
Caring Lessons / Radio Interview
Tomorrow, between 3 and 4pm Chicago time, I will be a guest on the Laura Dion-James Show at wrmn1410.com. Tune in online! The topic will, of course, be about my nursing memoir, Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self. Laura is a dynamic motivational coach, author, and speaker. Read more about her …
Focus
There's something about going to a wedding and meeting up with siblings where the discussion is retirement that makes me restless. Not that restlessness is a new thing, because I've always liked change. But after last week's immersion into sibling talk-we range in age from 65 to 82--about how we spend our leisure time in …
Caring Lessons Celebrates Anniversary
Permanent rubber duckies.That was my fear for the 1000 copies of Caring Lessons when, upon their arrival, my husband and I stored them in our bathrooms. Alas, the duckies were not to be. With gratitude to many of you—family, friends, and new friends, I can give an “annual report” that, together, we have sold over …
Literary Life Booksigning – 9/10/11
Many thanks to Amy Nagelkirk for setting up this book signing at Literary Life, a delightful bank-turned-bookstore in Grand Rapids, MI, started up and owned by physician Roni Devlin. And thanks to Dr. Devlin for now carrying Caring Lessons! If you've not seen this cozy independent bookstore, you must! Stop in at Wealthy and Eastern, …
Invite: Book Signing in Grand Rapids, MI
Hey, I'm coming back to GR for a book signing of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self, this Saturday from 2 to 4pm at Literary Life Bookstore, 758 Wealthy St. SE. Phone: 616-458-8418. Read about Literary Life and their description of the event here. Significant trivia: Wealthy Street breathes nostalgia. Forty-nine …
Caring Lessons Now Available on Nook.
Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self is now available on Nook. Thanks, Rhonda Funk, publicist for Deep River Books. for letting me know. Some readers already are happy it's been on Kindle, so if an e-book reader is your thing, you're all set. I'm a bit behind technology, but recently my …
Invite: Book Event, Bourgeois Pig Cafe, Chicago
As featured author on Tuesday, August 23, 7:30pm, I'll be reading excerpts from Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self. See The Reader for details. The Bourgeois Pig Cafe is located at 738 West Fullerton in Chicago. Come early and munch on their yummy sandwiches. The Bourgeois Pig is a cozy, student- …
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Zumba for Seniors, Anyone?
"You're looking go-o-od. You're looking go-o-od. You're looking go-o-od." The zumba leader sings her encouragement. Looking at my reflection in the floor-to-ceiling mirror behind her, I think, You lie. I look like a bag of disconnected limbs--arms and legs flailing in different directions, none of which is following her lead. There are times, I think, when I should …
Writing memoir – so what?
At the Northwestern Summer Writer’s Conference today, Michele Weldon, in Your Narrative: Writing Your Story, gave us a nearly three-hour pep talk on why writing our personal stories is important. With a Power Point presentation, she addressed memoir essentials, starting with how to narrow down our ideas, then walking us through craft elements such as …
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