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Yet Another Personality Test
I love this stuff. This one seemed to peg me pretty well, actually. The link to the site where you can take the test is down there at the bottom. NBPC – The Daydreamer Nature, Background, Big Picture, and Color You perceive the world with particular attention to nature. You focus on the hidden treasures of life (the background) and how that fits into the larger picture. You are also particularly drawn towards the colors around you. Because of the value you place on nature, you tend to find comfort … Continue reading
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The Nursing School Experience
Bravo to Phil Baumann, RN, for his blog post, An Open Letter to Some Nursing Education Faculty. To his list, I would also like to add “Appreciate your students’ previous knowledge and life experience.” As someone who attended nursing school after a successful career in the tech industry, it was disconcerting to be expected to forfeit my adulthood and life experiences and submit to being treated as though I were a naive and inexperienced 18-year-old just out of high school. I had lived in a foreign country and six different … Continue reading
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The Whole (almost) Family
The Whole (almost) Family Originally uploaded by Geek2Nurse This is everybody but Ryan (my oldest) and Felicity, gathered in Galveston for Mom & Dad’s 50th anniversary. Click through to Flickr for labels telling who each person is.
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Safe Zone…?
I was just browsing some of my old Flickr photos and realized I had never shared this one on my blog. It still makes me giggle. This was taken from the back parking lot where I used to work, at the Tuality Forest Grove Hospital Geropsych Unit. During my new employee orientation there, they told me that if we ever had to evacuate the unit due to fire, we were supposed to round up the patients and gather everyone at the light pole in the back parking lot. “You mean … Continue reading
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Chi Gung Diary
Today we had our first session with our new chi gung instructor, Fred Gordon. He’s a very interesting guy. I’m really hoping this is something that can help with the ever-increasing pain Jeff is having from the degenerative disk disease in his neck, but it’s also something I’m just really interested in knowing more about. Jeff is a natural with the energy stuff. He’s ‘way ahead of me at sensing it, even though I’m the one that’s been doing all the exploring for the last couple of years. My head … Continue reading
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Grandma’s Coffee Pot
My paternal grandma was a nurse… she died many years before I ended up following in her footsteps after my mid-life career change, but I think it would have made her proud. Grandma had long, jet-black hair that she wore in two braids wrapped around and around her head like a halo. She was big and soft and huggable, and felt good when she wrapped her arms around me and squished me into her. It scared me when she talked of losing weight, because I couldn’t imagine being comforted by … Continue reading
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Felicity is Famous
My lovely otherdaughter Felicity is officially a published author! A story she wrote, Burgerdroid, appears in the June issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, which is now available on a newsstand near you. You can also get it in electronic format at Fictionwise. Yay, Felicity! I love it when good things happen to people who so completely deserve them.