Posts

  • Let’s Talk About Eggs

    I’m taking a break from discussing writing methods or how nurses are dealing with the COVID-19 virus.  For this week’s post, I’m talking eggs.  I went to the North Carolina Farmers Market last Friday to drop off an empty egg carton and buy another dozen jumbo “free range” eggs from the Cox farm stand.  Janie Read more

  • What was my Memoir really about?

    It has been two years since my book was published on November 6, 2018. Shortly afterward, I wrote this for She Writes Press Blog: What was my memoir really about? November 2018 By Marianna Crane This guest post was written by Marianna Crane, author of Stories from the Tenth-Floor Clinic: A Nurse Practitioner Remembers. Marianna Crane Read more

  • Three Trailblazing Nurses

    Lorraine Starsky writes in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about three “extraordinary” Pittsburgh women who happened to be nurses. Each woman had provided services beyond the boundaries of the nursing role.  My hope is that in the World Health Organization’s 2020 International Year of the Nurse and Midwife more “extraordinary” nurses will be the subject of media Read more

  • United Kingdom Nursing Students Work on the Front Lines of the Pandemic

    In my post on September 22: Nursing Students Provide Insights into the Pandemic, I spotlighted the thoughts and experiences of the nursing students from Seton Hall University, New Jersey, as they cared for Covid-19 patients.  Today’s post has the same focus but this time nursing students from the United Kingdom share their stories about working on Read more

  • Trying Something New

    Trying Something New

    I want to write like Brian Doyle. I discovered him not too long after he died in 2017 at the age of 60 when I read His Last Game. Not only did it bring tears to my eyes but throughout my reading I felt a tightness in my chest and a longing that the story would end Read more

  • The Power of Nurses

    The World Health Organization designation of 2020 Year of the Nurse and Nurse Midwife has taken a back seat to the sensational political news alerts that fill our lives as if nothing else is important. This post is just a reminder that nurses still are on the front lines of COVID-19 and make a difference in our Read more