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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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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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 …
A few summers ago, I took a class on personal essays at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival with David Bouchier of NPR fame. His dry humor and engaging personality led to a lovely week of pushing us to thinking deeply about seemingly mundane influences in our lives. For example, he had just scratched out an …
During a recent road trip, I became aware that I was seeing the passing scenes in threesomes. Three geese. Three picnic tables. Three goats. Why wasn't I noticing foursomes and twosomes? My mind roamed around until I found my answer--the power of three I'd learned in writing classes. How a repetition of three--words, short sentences, …
I'm in to the nursing shortage tonight, partly because I've heard some horror stories again about people's experiences where they needed a nurse and encountered someone without the education or licensure. I'm not out to paint nursing as all rosy. The economic downturn right now is affecting jobs. Read or listen to this newscast: Shortage …
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has updated their fact sheet on the nursing shortage, a fact sheet that I've used before for obtaining shortage data for the promotion of Caring Lessons. Check out their website: AACN - Media - Nursing Shortage Fact Sheet As one of the growing population of older folks, I …
One of the fun things about blogging is having easy access to others that blog on topics similar to yours. And this week I stumbled upon a great blog by a nurse that teaches informatics to her nursing students and makes them write a blog for the course. Now, imagine if I would have had …
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