For $65 you can now buy the newest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Maybe you've never heard of it, but maybe you also have communed with it for hours trying to figure out the "correct" use of commas, quotation marks, capitalizations, etc. In college and in grad school, I used APA format (Publication …
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Life's been a bit hectic trying to get things done before Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self comes out. But I had a most informative day yesterday. My daughter, with her business contacts, hooked me up with Karen Peterson, a sales representative for GoPromotions. She invited us to a large show …
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It's past time to add another excerpt. This time from "Chapter 20 - Sister Mary Holy Water," an account of my experience as a naive Protestant assuming an undergraduate dean position in a Catholic school of nursing. Find under EXCERPTS on the HOME page or on the sidebar.
That's right. Three weeks from today I should have a stack of books stashed into the corners of my life. On one blog, another new author has put up a jubilant picture of himself with his stacks. I may do the same! It's almost fall and that means school is starting soon. Even though I've …
Last Friday, August 13, was the 100th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's death. I first studied Ms. Nightingale in a nursing history course the summer of 1960. In the 1959 Trends in Nursing History textbook that still sits on my bookshelves, I've underlined the passage saying she was born in Florence, Italy, "on May 12, 1820, …
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I'm not famous. I've never been on the front page of any newspaper, unless I can count my president's notes years ago on a District 20 newsletter of the Illinois Nursing Association. And I've not had a traumatic history to relate. So how do I promote my book? My promo literature includes something about an …
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Yes, the good news has arrived. Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self should arrive by September 10. Stay tuned in to this blog to get buying information that will benefit nursing education. And some of you have been asking for a description of Caring Lessons to be posted here. So this …
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The July/August issue of Poets&Writers features an article "Biking for the Book" about author James Kaelan's 1900 mile bike tour from Santa Monica to Vancouver to promote his collection of stories, We're Getting On. The article states the tour was being called the Zero Emission Book Project, referring to "a group of people who...abandon society …
Time's beginning to move quickly, and I'm making some exciting plans for promoting Caring Lessons. For fun this week, I searched on my Word program for one name that I use only in the first chapter of Caring Lessons. Since I've worked on the book off and mostly on for ten years, I suspected the …
As I watched the news last night with the ravaging fires in Russia, I could not help but wish them well in my mind and remember a memorable experience we had there a few years ago. See this story under STORIES at the top of the page.
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