• 24-Hour Woman

    24-Hour Woman

    “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” —Gabriel Garcia Marquez I remember Sadie Rooney handing me a brown paper bag on my visit that autumn day in the early 90s. Her husband, Jim, a self-taught preacher, had died the month before. At first…

  • WHAT A NURSE DOES BEST

    I found this article last February. It saddens me that we nurses are still at the mercy of others trying to define and rename us. Nurses do have many roles and titles and I suppose the general public still gets a bit confused. (See Jane Van De Velde’s guest post last week) My simplistic, but…

  • ONCE A NURSE, ALWAYS A NURSE By Jane Van De Velde, DNP, RN

    My nursing career has taken me down many paths over the years. Presently, I am a Reiki Master Teacher as well as the founder of a nonprofit organization called The Reiki Share Project. People often ask me what I “do.” And I usually begin by telling them that I am a registered nurse. Their next…

  • MEETING GOALS

    MEETING GOALS

    I’ve written about getting this book done so a draft will be finished by September first. (Post: Time To Get Serious). I’ve listed goals to be accomplished by the end of each month. I only have to tweak one story to meet my target for April and since there is one more day in April,…

  • BEST TIME TO BE A WRITER

    Seems that this is a great time to be a writer. At least that’s what I heard at the fifth annual Triangle Area Freelancers Nonfiction Writers Conference yesterday. I had attended the last three. Each year only gets better. What I liked most was the conference was small enough to feel part of a friendly,…

  • Write What You Are Afraid Of

    Write What You Are Afraid Of

    I didn’t attend the 2011 Fall Conference in Asheville sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network but I kept this description of one of the master classes: “If You’re Afraid to Write About It, You Probably Should Write About It”    Often a writer’s breakthrough comes when he finally faces up to material he’s been avoiding.…