If you don't mind waiting 3-4 years to tour the Thornton Quarry, this is an outing for you. When you’re traveling south of Chicago on the Tristate, have you ever wondered about that deep stone hole below that “dike” you’re crossing? For years, we’ve traveled that road to Michigan, and I would crane my neck …
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Fire Safety — A Nurse Grandma’s Scare
The next time you’re moaning about having to attend a mandatory fire safety program, interrupting your day, at your workplace, think about this story. The other night I was babysitting for my daughter’s two children under two on the 13th floor of a high rise her family was renting for vacation. I was burping the …
Writers: Write What You Know
"Write what you know" was standard advice in the writing classes I took as a beginning writer. I felt smug about the advice because I was planning to write a memoir of my nursing career, so, naturally, I knew my topic from head to toe very well. I did not hear a second part to …
The Nurse as Writer
For twenty-some years I taught nursing students. The curriculum in the four colleges where I taught addressed the different roles of the nurse, such as the nurse as caregiver, teacher, researcher, leader. Not once--and I chaired or had input into curriculum committees all of those years--did I think of addressing the potential role of the …
Hope College Tonight
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 …
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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Emailing doctors – IN FAVOR!
Have you ever been beside yourself with some ache or pain? Have you ever felt helpless about getting help? Have you ever thought about crashing down the doors of the emergency room? Have you ever known you should not go to the ER because even though you felt like your situation was life or death, …
Book Signing at Hair Salon
Many thanks go to Krystyna Velasco! It was a delight to meet a steady flow of other customers - 28 in all! - from 4pm to 7pm today. I found we all appreciate her, not only for how she produces magic with our hair, but for her hospitality--her love for each of us and her …
Estee Hanson Coiffures Hosts Book Event for Caring Lessons
Think books, buffet, and beauty salon. Dream of a hairdresser than any new author would love to have as an advocate. Meet Krystyna Velasco on N. Wabash in Chicago. Yes, it's a bit overwhelming, but Krystyna has been selling Caring Lessons for me since it came out last fall. Tomorrow she is hosting a Tea …
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Thanks to Women & Children First Bookstore!
Yes, I had the reading of Caring Lessons today at the Women & Children First bookstore on North Clark in Chicago. As a first-time author, I appreciate their cordial willingness to host me. And I'm thankful for new and old friends, plus two of my former writing teachers, that showed up. The staff told me …
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