I'm an engineer, artist, mom, wife, and registered nurse. I work on an inpatient psych unit and live in the Pacific NW USA with my husband and our menagerie of dog, parrots, cats, and a couple of corn snakes.
Sugar Cookies
Since I have 4 essays due this week, along with something like 13 chapters and 6 articles of assigned reading, I decided today would be a good time to bake cookies. (It’s nursing school logic. Just accept it.)
A couple of weeks ago I realized that I had become addicted to Lofthouse cookies. I was having [...]
Posted: September 9th, 2007 under My Life.
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Back to School. Again.
Only 107 days to go until graduation… I’ve almost made it into the double digits! Have I mentioned that I’ve been dreading this term a little bit? That’s because through past terms I’ve watched some political struggles between faculty factions being played out with the seniors as their pawns, and I hate political games, and [...]
Posted: August 31st, 2007 under My Life.
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Compassion
Since I haven’t had much time for blogging lately, I thought I’d share something I wrote for school. This is an excerpt from a paper for one of my nursing classes. I hope you like it.
It was compassion that precipitated my journey toward a career in nursing, and like many of my peers, I had [...]
Posted: November 26th, 2006 under Deep Thoughts, Nursing.
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Focus
Back in the early 90s there were these posters and pictures everywhere that looked like a big mess of colored dots or designs, but if you learned to look at them the right way, you could see a three-dimensional image there. It took practice to teach your eyes to focus in this new way. Even [...]
Posted: April 28th, 2006 under Nursing, Parallel Universes.
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