Super Freakonomics [Audio Book Review]
Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance is the second book by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. One of the authors narrates the audio book, and the book shares this common theme among... Read More
The Reciprocality of Encouragement
The great thing about encouragement is that when you give it away, it typically comes right back around to you when you need it. Perhaps it is the law of reaping what you’ve sown. Others may call it karma. Whatever... Read More
Nurses as Commodities
A commodity is a general term for a marketable good lacking differentiation across markets. It is easily replaceable because there is no differentiation; the commodities are exact replacements of one another. Too many times leaders and hiring/firing managers view nurses (and many... Read More
Exceeding the Goal
The goal ahead. So far away. Keep going. Keep going. Diffusing the mind games step by step. When there is nothing left to give, no more energy to push into steps. Stop. Only to realize the goal is behind now.... Read More
Winning Looks Goooood
Congrats to KayLynn for winning a new pair of Dansko scrubs! She’s proof that the more entries, the better. What a great way to head into the weekend.... Read More
One Wild and Precious Life
This is one of my favorite lines from a striking Mary Oliver poem within She Walks in Beauty. You can download this one wild and precious reminder as a small poster or as a printable card. ... Read More
Extraordinary, Ordinary People [Audio Book Review]
Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family by Condoleezza Rice is a remarkable book. Rice reads the audio book over seven discs and nearly nine hours. It is a book detailing Rice’s parents and growth from childhood to her first encounter with... Read More
May Today There Be Peace Within
Download this printable reminder for your day.... Read More
She Walks in Beauty [Audio Book Review]
She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems is a collection of poems, both modern and classic, curated by Caroline Kennedy. The poems focus on broad themes of womanhood. Some of the poems I knew, and it was nice to... Read More
Humbled by a Liebster Award Nomination
A sweet friend at The Girl in the Blue Apron nominated me for a Liebster Award. I am incredibly humbled by Elisa’s kind words of me. Thank you, Elisa! I am so glad the Oncology Nursing Society brought us together,... Read More