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  • 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 Read more

  • 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 Read more

  • 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, Read more

  • 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, Read more

  • 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. Read more

  • Time To Get Serious

    I woke up one morning this past January and decided it was time to get serious about losing weight and finishing the book. First of all, I have been carrying around ten extra pounds for years until they magically morphed into twenty extra pounds. Second, over the past seven years I have written and rewritten Read more