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Student walkout in Kingston Ontario to protest the changes to our education by the Ford government...

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Hooray and cheers! And FREE BOOK (read down...)!

I know this is an awkward time to be celebrating as our entire world is being set aflame by unusual individuals, but I am anyway, because I finished my third book!! Named “Bib & Tucker”, it follows my nursing student Ruth Maclean on her next placement, this time to the old Rockwood Asylum in Kingston, ON, the newly named Ontario Hospital. It’s a scary limestone building that still looms on the…

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[dabblesco]

Job or mission?

Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com As I wait eagerly for the official release date of my book, Spit & Polish on February 29th, I find myself thinking about the education it requires to become a nurse. And about the saying “once a nurse, always a nurse’, which seems to crop up whenever a nurse is in the room. But is it so? Nursing education gets nowhere near the accolades that medical education…

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Wallowing in research, or when did that happen, exactly?

Wallowing in research, or when did that happen, exactly?

I’m in the depths of finishing up my book about a nursing student in Kingston, ON, back at the end of WW2. I’ve got the plot mostly finished, I know where it’s going, I have my characters in place and they are mostly defined, though I’m working on deepening their portrayal. But I keep getting distracted. The other day I was writing about charting, as in recording medical records. It’s unlikely…

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And once more into the fray, my friends

And once more into the fray, my friends

Tubercle bacillus It only seems right to write about infectious diseases in this endless time of plague. As a retired nurse with an epidemiology degree, I’ve always been fascinated by infectious thingies, and particularly by the above, tuberculosis, the gift that keeps on giving. We keep thinking it isn’t much of a problem. After all we have drugs, right? Well, we did, until the recent AIDS…

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I’m in Kingston for the night and it is also the anniversary of Gord’s passing. So makes the stop even more poignant.

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Kingston ON

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What I learned from the Hip

What I learned from the Hip

I am just an average Tragically Hip fan, I have never experienced the band live.  I am probably more of an admirer than what people would call a true fan, I bought the CD’s created the iPod playlist and chose to learn to play Ahead by a Century on my new guitar. I can’t say that I remember how to play it today if I took the guitar out of its case. I consider the Hip to be the new Guess Who, who I…

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