A tranquil place to contemplate the meaning of Easter is the famed Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. Opened in 1860, it consists of 119 acres of "pastoral landscape" in the heart of the north side. Graceland is the final resting place for both ordinary and prominent citizens, including Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the reaper, and George …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #12 – Changing Minds about Mental Ilness
"Changing Minds about Mental Illness" is a topic close to my heart. For a few reasons why, read my guest post on this tour's site today. Also, please read this short essay to find out what you can do to help individuals living with mental illness and their families. If you're a writer and interested …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #11
Two in one day??? Yes, there are two blog tour stops today. The tour will be over a week from today, so savor this opportunity to discover the blogs of these varied and interesting book-loving women. This afternoon's blogger, Audry Feyer, is a woman after my own heart. She lives with a John Deere fanatic! …
Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #10 / Hot Fudge Friends
Today, I'm all about being an older woman who wears purple, albeit with no red hat on my head, and who is thankful for my long-term friendship with Marianna, a person with whom I've walked many miles of fun and silliness and tanked in hard-to-fathom-at-the-time sorrows. So for today's Caring Lessons blog tour, when I …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #9 / Ten Things I Learned on My Way to Market
Are you almost finished writing your book? Are you dreading the thought of marketing? Do you need tips to save your sanity about how to handle your tub-full of books when they arrive? I'm not the little piggie that went to market, but I am the piggie that stayed home and planned, down to minute …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #8 – Giveaway Copies
Are you an empty nester? Are you trying to lose weight? These are just a few of the fun things that Pam Lofton, the host of this blog tour, writes about on her blog, Empty Nest. Her review of Caring Lessons nails what my friend Marianna and I were hoping when we began writing our …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #7 / Ten Tips to Finish Your Book
Are you almost ready to finish writing your book? I compiled ten tips that helped me finish Caring Lessons. Check them out on Julie Lindsey's blog, Musings From the Slushpile, the seventh stop on the author blog tour for Caring Lessons. Plan ahead. Think about gifts for those special nurses in your life. National Nurses …
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A Late Onset Identity Crisis
May 31st is the deadline for renewing my license as a registered nurse, a license I’ve held for fifty years. For two years, I’ve been preparing myself that my golden anniversary would be a memorable time to let it expire. After all, I retired from working full-time twelve years ago and haven’t even volunteered to …
This morning I found that my blurb on WOW Blog Tour #6 was posted as a "related article" on this "allaboutlemon" touching reminder about the importance of hope. I agree, a good thought for a Sunday morning.
Calling All Elders, Seniors, Oldsters, Geezers…!
I'm happy to offer my older friends an opportunity to submit your words via written interview for consideration for a new book being edited by one of my writing teachers, Carol LaChapelle. Here is a blurb from her blog: ON THE GEEZER BEAT: Tales from Elderville a forthcoming book by Carol LaChapelle, author of Finding …
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