To celebrate Nursetopia’s 1st blogoversary, I’m giving away a $25 iTunes gift card. Lots of people viewed the blog post, but only eight people commented to enter the drawing. I’ll never understand that, but it gave the eight commenting people... Read More
365 days later…I’m still blogging and loving it! Nursetopia has been an amazingly wonderful creative outlet. If you’ve followed along since the beginning, you’ve read about several significant points in my life including dramatically changing my health and transitioning to a... Read More
Happy Independence Day to everyone in the U.S! Between barbeques and beer, tubing and skiing, family and friends, take a moment to reflect on the enormous subtleties of our freedoms and the men and women – including many nurses –... Read More
First, happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. I hope it was and continues to be a special day. I am fortunate to still have my lovely daddy in my life. Not only that, but I am also... Read More
Ever wish you could take content from three websites, mash it all together, and then filter it? If so, you’d love Yahoo Pipes. Build a “pipe” of content from as many web sources as you’d like, customize it with all... Read More
The FDA announced plans for sunscreen guidelines in 1978. They published them in 1999 – a full 21 years later. This marks the first revision to those guidelines now 12 years later. Interesting, considering the known public health and economic... Read More
The Dallas Mavericks played well yesterday evening, beating the Miami Heat 86 to 83 in another nail-biting championship game and tying the series 2-2. Dirk Nowitzki played the game with a 102 degree fever, looking quite exhausted and sickly throughout... Read More
It is National Cancer Survivors Day. With over 13 million cancer survivors in the U.S. alone and 28 million cancer survivors worldwide, there’s reason to celebrate. More people are living with cancer and living well. There is still much more... Read More
My oldest sister changed my family’s culture forever, not to mention probably helped us gain years back to our lives. She decided to run a half-marathon before a milestone birthday. Little did she know that two of her brother-in-laws –... Read More