"Our goal was to make this unit a healing environment," the RN said. She was leading our pre-opening tour of the inpatient psychiatric unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Healing. Her word caught my attention. She maybe didn’t know how healing it was just to hear her say they wanted their new milieu to …
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A week ago yesterday, I had the privilege of being the speaker at a Vespers service in a retirement village. Never having done this before, I still readily accepted the invitation. I'm happy I did. You see retirement homes hold an attraction for me. I conducted my doctoral research in one, spending a summer--it felt …
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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, …
A somber tribute: thirty-two hundred flags attached to white poles slipped over thirty-two hundred strips of rebar that are placed in checkered squares.
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 …
Some time ago, I wrote that you can take a boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of a boy. Proof once again: My husband on Labor Day driving a late 40s Farmall in the Black Diamond, Washington, parade. Older fellas lined up to discuss the make, year, and restoration of …
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In the following slide show, walk along with me to and from the swim portion of Chicago's Triathlon. It was crisp and sunny this morning, a perfect day to enjoy the outdoors and the wonders of the human body. There are thousands of tourists in town. One participant (staying at our home!) said, "This race …
“Just got home. Two hours late! A nightmare of a night shift. Admissions, post-ops, and then a code. And who came to help? A new intern who didn’t know beans. Heading to the beach now to sleep in peace.” I’m exaggerating a bit (I hope), but posts almost like this have crept into our social …
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 …
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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