Review............

Peer review is a great way to get great ideas!  When you ask your peers to give constructive feedback you can gleen so much information.  They may have a different look on things than you do and because you are the one writing the paper you know what you think it says.  While they are the ones actually reading the paper they know what is actually written.  You as an author may read into your writings certain moods or ideas that are not naturally expressed the way that you intended.  By having your peers review your work, you get the idea of how the audience hears or sees your work.  I love feedback, good, bad or indifferent....from all area!  Come on baby, hit me with your best shot!

January 2011....so diffent than 2010

If someone would have told me last January what life would be like this January I would have never believed them.  As one goes through life, there are many times that we come to forks or crossroads where we have to make decisions on which direction to take.  This is where I find myself.  My decisions will affect many people.  My family, friends and myself.  Last January, we placed my fathers ashes in the ground just a day after my brothers 46th birthday.  That was a turning point in my life.  I have since been in a constant state of change the redirection, that at times I feel that I have just been on the most intense roller coaster ever built.  I am looking forward to the future chapters in my life and the lessons to be learned.

Why steal from me??

When I think about plagiarism it makes me feel taken advantage of.  To have worked so hard to have my thoughts, words and ideas be birthed from within and taken to paper just to have someone else claim that it is theirs is discouraging...almost like a personal attack.  Now, if someone felt that what I had to say was good and they gave me the credit, I would be elated.  Just to have one person understand what I was trying to communicate and want to actually share it would build up my confidence.  I now have a new outlook on using others knowledge and giving them the credit they are due.

Brainstorming ideas about the EMR

I find it fascinating that the health care field has been mandated to have an electronic medical record by the year 2012 (I think that is when it has to happen).  There are many reasons to have an EMR, and as a health care worker I can see the many advantages that would come from this.  A few angles that I'm researching now on the EMR are privacy, compatibility of programs, cost effectiveness and the relief that may come to the health care worker who has always struggled with reading doctors orders because they all took the class "doctor writing 101" where they learn to write so that no one can read it and therefore they believe it will be less of a chance for them to be sued if the wrong thing was done.  Just kidding, all joking aside, to be able to actually read an order and know who wrote the order either by electronic signature or an assigned number for the signature will be a relief for many and a struggle for many others....

Winter Solistice

First day of winter....wow! This could only mean that spring is just around the corner. I look forward to the newness of spring, the little bit of green and other colors poking their way through the frozen ground. Living in Michigan and missing my Harley, just the thought that winter is here, but spring is on the way has a bittersweet sound to it. How many days until there will be a day to have my knees to the breeze? How warm does it have to be to enjoy the freedom of the ride? Oh, I get sooo very excited when I think about the roar of the bike and the vibration of the engine ~ the smell of the ride ~ leather.............

Welcome

Hi everyone....welcome to my blog.  I have never blogged before, but I believe that this may just be a new fun thing to do.  I also believe that it may be very healing and informational.  If you are here, you may have read the first post that I wrote here.  I was nervous, but am so glad that I sat back, relaxed and let my fingers do the blogging.  I'll see many of you on your blogs, I look forward to your comments and your blogging.

Thinking

I've spent many days thinking about what the future holds for me.  I think about my family, my friends, my education and my career.  I know that God has a perfect plan for my life...but life in the desert leaves you dehydrated and thirsty.  My heart longs to be thirsty for the living water, but I seem to be choosing other sources to quench that ever present thirst. Winter is so dry.  You would think with snow as deep as six inches or more that water would be abundant.  Not so!  You must first heat the snow so that it melts from the near frozen state to a liquid state.  Much the same way snow is heated to make water, our lives are heated to purify, heal and build.  Should I run or go slowly.  In the desert, without water, running could be dangerous.  But the more slowly that I travel the deeper the burn.  A good friend warned me just a few days ago to "Go Slow....just slow down".  She has been watching me for twenty years, I think she has some wisdom that I should take to heart.  But this desert is so, so very HOT!