Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul (37 page)

Tricia Caliguire
and her husband, Greg, are producers of information products, showing people how to make the best use of who they are, where they are, with what they have, to make a better life for themselves and the people around them. Contact Tricia at
[email protected]
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Candace L. Calvert
is an ER nurse, mother of two, and writer of inspirational essays, humor articles and fiction. She swapped her riding boots for chilipepper red dancing boots, and “Two Steps” and twirls across country-dance floors with husband, Andy. She is currently at work on a novel. You may email her at
[email protected]
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Denise Casaubon
is a registered nurse and paralegal. She is the president of a teeny tiny corporation, d.b.a. DNR Medical-Legal Consultants. DNR provides expert witness and research services to attorneys and compliance consulting services to health care facilities. Please visit DNR’s Web site at
www.dnrconsultants.org
or e-mail her at
[email protected]
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Mitzi Chandler, L.P.N.,
writes poetry, inspirational pieces, children’s stories and humor. She has worked as a nurse in St. Louis and Chicago, and has presented programs on the effects of family alcoholism on children. At present, she is busy and happy being a grandmother and traveling with her newly retired husband.

Sylvia C. Chism
was a nurse administrator for many years in southern and central California, Reno and Baltimore, Maryland. She taught nursing at a university and worked with deaf college students. Sylvia also led workshops in leadership, self-esteem, therapeutic touch and spirituality. She is a member of health ministry, healing ministry, a commission on aging and is a published writer.

Cherie Clark,
was evacuated twice with orphans during the final days of the Vietnam War. Cherie then went to Calcutta where she met and worked with Mother Teresa. She founded the International Mission of Hope, a charitable organization. Cherie resided in India for twelve years and returned to live and work in Vietnam in 1988. She is the author of the book
After Sorrow Comes Joy
. Contact her at
[email protected]
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Virginia L. Clark, R.N., C.C.R.N.,
is a poet and writer who retired from her twenty-year nursing career in 1987. She now lives in Taos, New Mexico, and writes columns, news stories and features for local publications. Her poetry manuscript
A Child’s Book of Shadows
should be available fall 2001. Please contact her at
[email protected]
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Dolores Curran
is a parent educator and writer who has lectured extensively on family topics, both nationally and abroad. Her books include
Traits of a
Healthy Family, Stress and the Healthy Family, Working with Parents
and
Tired of
Arguing with Your Kids?
She resides in Littleton, Colorado.

Ken Cyr, R.N., Ph.D.,
is a clinical psychologist. Besides poetry, he has written books on weather and behavior; attention deficit for teachers, parents and children, and investigating sexual abuse. Signed copies of
Love in Your Hands
are available. Contact Ken at
[email protected]
or fax him at 210-690-0611.

Kathleen Dahle
commenced her nursing training at N.D.S.U. in Fargo, North Dakota and received her B.S.N. from Moorhead State University in 1984. Since 1988, she has worked as a legal nurse consultant. Kathleen resides in Fort Worth with her husband and four very busy children. Please contact her at
[email protected]
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Johnnie Dowdy
is the mother of one son, and grandmother to two boys. She is an R.N. supervisor and has been in nursing for thirty-two years working trauma and OB.

Elaine Gray Dumler,
a corporate presentation skill trainer, spent a lot of time with nurses and discovered their true healing power. Within eighteen months of Rondi’s battle for life, she lost her other sister, Nancy, to cancer. Elaine, husband Larry and son Bryan live at 6460 W. 98th Ct., Westminster, CO 80021 or call 303-430-0592.

Christine Ehlers, B.S.N.,
received her B.S.N. with an H.A.S. minor from the University of Central Florida in May 2001. She hopes to pursue a career in emergency nursing. Christine enjoys fishing, traveling and spending time with family and friends. She is a member of Alpha Delta Phi Sorority. You may e-mail her at
[email protected]
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Benita Epstein
has cartoons that appear in hundreds of publications such as
The New Yorker, Reader’s Digest
and
Better Homes & Gardens.
She has three cartoon collections:
Suture Self, Interlibrary Loan Sharks and Seedy Roms,
and
Science of
Little Round Things
(McFarland & Co. 1-800-253-2187). Contact Benita at
[email protected]
or visit her Web site at
www.reuben.org/benitaepstein/
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Joan Filbin
received a degree in nursing in 1980. She works in a newborn intensive care nursery in North Central Wisconsin. As a teacher/speaker for women’s groups, she has been frequently asked if she has written any of her stories. She has recently returned to school to pursue a long-overdue dream to write. Please reach her at
[email protected]
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Naomi Follis
graduated from Purdue University Calumet Campus School of Nursing, and has a diploma from Long Ridge Writers Group. She resides in Oklahoma City where she pursues her study of Native American history and art, and writes poetry and short stories.

Janie K. Ford
graduated from Brigham Young University in 1978 and has been a flight nurse in Southern California for seventeen years. Her hobbies include American history, horses, sports, travel and partying with her family. She is a motivational speaker for youth and adults. She can be reached at 714-528-0268 or
[email protected]
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Gwen Fosse, R.N.,
has worked with children with heart disease, witnessing many advances in their care for nearly forty years. She thanks her husband, three daughters and parents for allowing her to pursue her “heart” life. She also thanks the colleagues, children and families who have been her teachers. E-mail her at
[email protected].

Carolyn Gavalas
is laboratory manager at Virginia Gay Hospital in Vinton, Iowa. She enjoys her four dogs, traveling, reading, needlework, stamping, genealogy, attending concerts, bingo, collecting bears and her backyard pond, gazebo and garden. She and her late husband, Jim, have a daughter, Stephanie.

Nancy B. Gibbs
is a weekly religion columnist and freelance writer. Her writing has appeared in books by Honor Books and Guideposts Books. She has been published in numerous magazines and devotional guides. She is a pastor’s wife and mother of three grown children. Nancy may be contacted at
[email protected]
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Susan M. Goldberg, R.N.,
has worked as an OR nurse for the past thirty years. She completed her B.S. degree in organizational management twenty-seven years after graduating nursing school. Susan is the surgical services instructor at a Westchester, New York, hospital, and teaches college nursing courses and self-esteem workshops. You may contact Susan at
[email protected]
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Viola Ruelke Gommer, R.N., M.S.N.,
is a retired nurse educator and nurse executive. As a board member of United Methodist Fellowship of Health Care Volunteers, she now shares her knowledge, skills and faith within the United States and in other countries—Haiti, Bolivia, Guyana, Zimbabwe and the Dominican Republic. She is a dynamic speaker and inspiring teacher. Vi also offers guidance and training for persons interested in becoming volunteers in mission. She is proponent of Comprehensive Community-based Primary Health Care. CCPHC empowers individuals and communities to become responsible for their own health promotion and illness prevention. It moves persons from hopelessness to hope. You can reach Vi at P.O. Box 313, Sweet Valley, PA 18656. You may e-mail her at
[email protected]
or call 570-477-5841.

Lini R. Grol
is a retired registered nurse, trained in her homeland in The Netherlands, before coming to Canada. She has published, internationally, poetry, fiction and folktales with scissors-cut illustrations in periodicals, anthologies and books. Her latest books are
A Matter of the Heart,
1998 and
Lake
to Lake,
Lini Grol’s NIAGRA, 2001. Her poems are broadcast and are on cassette and CD. She has won prizes for her stories and scissors-cut illustrations. Her WWII poems are read at Remembrance Day services.

Jacqueline C. Hadeland,
forty-four, has been a registered nurse for seven years. She works for Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. She resides in Wellington, Florida, with her husband and fourteen-year-old daughter.

Don Haines, R.N.,
retired from nursing in 1998. He started writing in 1996, thereby fulfilling a lifelong dream. He lives quietly in Carroll County, Maryland, with his wife, Sheila, and their Yorkie, Minnie. The quiet is shattered when their nine grandchildren come to call. They are a welcome diversion.

Nancy Harless
is a nurse practitioner now exercising her menopausal zest through travel, volunteering in various health-care projects and writing about these experiences. Most of her writing is done in a towering maple tree in the tree house built specifically for that purpose by her husband, Norm. She is currently writing a book about the strong and beautiful women she has met on her journeys. Please reach her at
[email protected].

Laura Vickery Hart
is a registered nurse, international board-certified lactation consultant and childbirth educator in Central Florida. She graduated from Johnston-Willis Hospital School of Nursing in Richmond, Virginia, in 1968 and received her bachelor of science degree in nursing from Florida Southern College in 1997. Laura enjoys reading and spending time with her children and grandchildren. You may e-mail Laura at
[email protected]
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Catherine Hoe Harwood
works with a dynamic faculty group teaching nursing at Trinity Western University, a private Christian university in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. She previously taught nursing at University of Western Ontario. Catherine is blessed with two children and a wonderful extended family. She may be reached at
[email protected]
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Mary Jane Holman, R.N.,
works in the intensive care unit at Doctor’s Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana. You may reach her at
[email protected]
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Beverly Houseman, R.N.,
is a retired nurse. She was a childbirth educator for twenty-eight years and is married with two sons and two grandchildren. Beverly enjoys writing, crafting, singing and traveling. She is writing her own book about life with her mentally handicapped son, Rusty. You may contact her at
[email protected]
. Beverly also counsels people with pre-or post-abortion syndrome.

Sarah Webb Johnson
graduated from Baptist Hospital School of Nursing in Memphis in 1979. She spent seven years working in the intensive care unit at Baptist Hospital. Sarah then pursued a career in public health and school health where she has met her greatest nursing challenges. You may reach her at
[email protected]
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Marie D. Jones
is an ordained New Thought Minister working toward her doctor of divinity. She is a widely published writer and producer of a line of children’s videos called Gigglebug Farms. She lives in San Marcos, California, with her husband, Ron and baby, Max. You can reach her at
[email protected]
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Kathryn Kimzey Judkins, L.V.N.,
has lived in California since 1962. In 1965, she became an L.V.N. Since retiring in 1998, she spends much of her time writing poetry and short stories. Married fifty-four years, she has three children, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Bil Keane
created
The Family Circus,
based on his own family, in 1960. It now appears in well over fifteen hundred newspapers and is read daily by 188 million people. The award-winning feature is the most widely syndicated cartoon in America. Check out
The Family Circus
Web site at
www.familycircus.com
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Carin Klabbers
likes to write inspirational stories (she is published in
Chicken
Soup for the Gardener’s Soul
). She combines her household duties with volunteer work and writes monthly articles for the local newspaper about fair trade. You may reach her at koninginneweg 75, 2g82 AH Ridderkerk, The Netherlands. Her e-mail address is
[email protected]
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Allen Klein
(aka Mr. Jollytologist) is a professional speaker and bestselling author. His award-winning programs show audiences how to use humor to deal with not-so-funny stuff. His books include
The Healing Power of Humor
and
The Courage to Laugh
. You may contact him for information at
www.allenklein.com
or e-mail him at
[email protected]
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