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 …
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Hope College, 4/13/11, Writing a Nurse’s Life-Why?
The next event for Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self will be on Wednesday, April 13, starting at 6:30 in the Science Center, Room 1000, at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. If you can, use Word Power Point to open the following sharp poster they've made. PresentationFlyer-LoisRoelofs If not, check under …
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A Salute to Babysitting Grandmas
Once upon a time when I was in my late twenties I was the mom of a toddler and a newborn. I remember being on duty 24/7/365, similar to when I worked in nursing except I did not have every third weekend off like we did in the early sixties. I remember cloth diapers, sterilized bottles, …
Giga Alerts Finds New Review of Caring Lessons
So, do you know about Giga Alerts? A free web alerting service that tracks your name, for example, when it shows up on the web? I get an email every few weeks that shows where my name--because that's what I've asked them to track for me--shows up on the web. To get even more results, …
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January Events for “Caring Lessons”
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 …
“Tips for a Healthier You in 2011”
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.
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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Apples, friends, and book launches…
After yet a few more fun book launching events--a read at the Palos Heights Library and a book table at a conference sponsored by the Park Forest Nurses Club, I took a break with my husband for a road trip west. The fall color changes were almost complete, but the rolling hills of newly harvested …
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 …
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