Three weeks ago, I posted "Dissertation Revisited", ending with a plea for help with APA format. A former student responded via email. Her memory serves to remind us "former teachers" that our students actually do remember some things they're taught! I had to laugh when you asked for help with APA format. When I put …
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Twenty years ago, I wrote a dissertation to complete the requirements for a PhD in nursing. A flurry followed where I presented papers and posters at conferences on my research. Eight years later, in 1999, I published some of the results in a refereed journal. A highlight for me. Jump to now. A colleague is …
I'm leaving for CA in the morning to join one of my sisters for a fun week in the sun. We both have birthdays soon, so we'll celebrate. Seventies, I'm on my way! If I recall correctly, Ben Franklin, Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali were born on the same day in January as I. …
Well. A few of you have held me accountable this past week by asking how the no sugar deal is going. Fine, thank you! Marv is loving every piece of the pie he bought last week, and he doesn't have to worry about me inhaling every sweet he brought home from his office Christmas party. …
Walking past a Fannie May shop this morning, I remembered those days when Pixies™, eggnog creams, and chocolate covered cherries covered the counters of nurses’ stations at Christmas. So, I want to challenge you, especially nurses, to skip the candy, in fact, to skip sugar altogether, over the holidays. But, you say, there are too …
I think I caught the infection I mentioned on my 11/29 blog post on this same topic. If so, that would be a good thing. Infections are normally unpleasant. They can be contagious. They can keep you home from work. But the infection that I hope I caught is a contagion that many of us …
With the IV drip rate post of the other day, it's been fun going down the memory lane of nursing with you. As I'm working at my desk this morning, taking a breather before getting frosted in Chicago's cold, I decided it was time for an audio post update from Caring Lessons. Take a minute …
I feel exonerated. Finally. When my daughter was two, her temper tantrums merited a blue ribbon. Once, as I was leaving a coffee date, a friend with a child also two, remarked, “I don’t know how you stand it, Lo.” She stared with me at the floor where my feisty adorable blonde-haired child splayed herself …
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 …
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 …
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