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  • Nurses’ Books Need More Media Attention

    In my last post, I told you about a couple of books I discovered—short story collections written by nurses. Lynn Rosack wrote a comment on my last post reminding me that Echo Heron, whose book I covered, Emergency 24/7: Nurses of the Emergency Room (2015) had written other nursing books. One of them, Intensive Care:… Read more

  • Nursing Stories by the Hundreds!

    Now that my book has been reworked and has a new title—Playing Sheriff: A Nurse Practitioner’s Story—I am ready to get it in print. In order to do this, I’ve been looking for books about nursing, and preferably written by a nurse. to see how these reached publication. First of all, I found out was… Read more

  • A Nurse’s Hands

    I came across this post on All Nurses. It’s too lovely not to share. A Nurse’s Hands by VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN Guide Mar 16 2016 I’ve been retired for over two years now, but in a rare contemplative moment, here are a few thoughts on what being a nurse meant to me. Lately I’ve taken… Read more

  • Humor Noir/Black Humor

    While I was looking for something to read to my writing group, I came across this story. It brings back memories of how green I was when I started nursing school.   Right before Patsy’s turn to share her thoughts with the group, she smiled coyly at me. Oh no! She wasn’t going to tell… Read more

  • Keeping Creative Juices Juicy

    A few years back I took an acrylic painting class. Sometimes, while the ever-present radio played a Mahler violin concerto, an aria from La Traviata or Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire, I would spin about whipping color on my canvas, feeling “in the zone.” My mind would disconnect from my hand, which moved independent of… Read more

  • The Olden Days of Nursing

    “I would be in a sweat if I tried to maneuver out of that tight parking space without power steering,” I said to my 15-year-old grandson who is currently taking driver education. We had left the grocery store with a bottle of apple juice and two bags of pretzels. The parking lot was small and… Read more