I'm thrilled to tell you that Jodi Webb at WOW-Women on Writing has launched my blog tour for Caring Lessons. Read about it here. WOW! Nice work, Jodi! Thank you! Plan ahead. National Nurses Week is just around the corner, May 6-12. It's gift time! Buy a copy of Caring Lessons and help promote and …
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ICRS #2 – Interviews, Signings, and Cupcakes
The International Christian Retail Show started for me with a warm greeting from Bill and Nancie Carmichael from Deep River Books, my publisher. They sponsored a dinner (yummy salmon) for their authors and guests at the Westin in Atlanta. My guest, from the friendship theme in Caring Lessons, was Marianna Crane. After dinner, Bill invited …
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ICRS #1 – Hopping MARTA to Downtown Atlanta
One big blessing is the best way I can describe my experience at the International Christian Retail Show last week in Atlanta. My friend Marianna Crane, featured in Caring Lessons, and I arrived within minutes of each other and met up at a Delta gate. We hadn’t seen each other in over a year, and …
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A Retired Nurse Remembers
"Where were you the day that Kennedy died?" my dinner guest asked me recently. I wondered why she wanted to know, but, as most of us who were alive then, I could remember exactly. "Sitting at my sister's kitchen table, " I said. "I know you weren't at work that night. And I missed you." …
Nursing Power in “First Sentences”
In my quest, as a nurse, to become a writer of memoir, I learned the importance of first sentences: to draw the reader into the story immediately. Think of the classics: “Call me Ishmael” (Melville's Moby Dick) and "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...” (Dickens's A Tale of Two …
Nurse Heal Thyself
In 2000, the summer after I retired from teaching nursing, I took my first writing course. It was with Carol LaChapelle at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She assigned us to write a character sketch. I had no idea what that was. As she went on to explain, I thought, Oh, that's just a head …
Surviving as a Working Mom
As a retired nurse promoting a career memoir, people have asked how I did it all—raise kids, get a PhD, and work in nursing. It’s now an old story, but one that got resurrected recently when my husband asked me to read an article in the newspaper. In the article, “Poll: Many moms resent carrying …
Mental Health America: May is Mental Health Month 2011
Did you know that 60 million Americans are diagnosed with a mental health condition in any given year, that’s 1in4. Learn more at http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go/may. Read the simple "handout" above to see what you can learn and how you can help friends or family members living with mental illness. With a simple gesture of increasing our …
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Write Along with Me 