Hmm. About me? I’m completely stumped. I can’t think of anything that doesn’t sound kind of trite. So I will just stick with the basics.
I am a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. I love children and relate to children so much better than I do most adults.
I have worked in Pediatrics since 1985, back in the days of big hair, synthesized music and multiple movies all with the same bunch of young actors. Of course, I loved every one of those movies, especially “Breakfast Club”. And I think I may have had big hair back then too.
I remember counting IV drips (no electronic IV pumps back then), mixing my own IV medications and taking care of 20 children with 2 Corpsmen for 12 hours (that was back in my Navy days).
I became a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in 1995. I attended the University of Washington (great school, beautiful campus). I was in the Air Force until 2003.
I have this fascination with ghosts, the supernatural (except Vampires – they freak me out). I watch all the ghost hunting shows. And I have seen a full-bodied apparition. Only once though and it scared me to death. That’s a whole other post.
I am sure there is so much more going on in the world that we just aren’t willing to acknowledge. I believe as children we are much more in tune with the supernatural and the forces that surround us and as we get older, our minds build barriers. Why is that?
I started writing about two years ago, well at least making a concerted effort to write. I find it very therapeutic. It is interesting when you get into the zone, and the words are flowing, it is almost like an out-of body experience. I wonder if that is why some of the great authors self-medicated, because the world in their imagination is much more fascinating than reality.
“From Cornflakes to Eternity” is a blending of my love for children and my fascination with ghosts, ghost stories, the paranormal and the supernatural. “From Cornflakes to Eternity” can be purchased on Amazon.
Hey, I dont’ know if you do the blogger award thing, but if you do, I nominated your blog for the Creative Blogger Award. Details here: https://thatanxiousmom.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/creative-blogger-award/ 🙂
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Are you kidding me?! That’s so cool. What does it all mean? Never been nominated for anything.
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There are a lot of these types of awards going around, but it’s about recognizing/promoting other blogs you enjoy, fun stuff 🙂
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Now how on earth did I miss the fact that you have a book out? How cool!
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My first book. It was great fun to write. I don’t really tell anyone, so I basically suck at marketing. Oh well.
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I’d be annoying the crap out of everyone if it were me. Maybe threaten to withhold the baby pictures until they send me proof of an Amazon Verified Purchase 5-Star Review. 😉
I have it downloaded on my phone to read in the coming weeks, looking forward to it!
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You are the best!!! Thank-you!!!!
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I was just wondering the same thing!
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I am the suckiest self-promoter, book-marketer person ever. I was keeping it a secret (tee-hee)!!!!!
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NO!!! you need to get the word out there! That’s a huge accomplishment!
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I really do, but it isn’t in my nature. I figure it will languish in the deepest, darkest depths of Amazon and then someday it will be discovered. It has received great reviews (all 6 and 4 of them are from people I don’t even know). It’s a bit sad at first, but it ends on a good note. Thank-you for your enthusiasm!!!!!!!!!! How did you do on the Mommy blog poll?
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I am ranked 15 in my category…I was 25 so it’s a step up….thank you 🙂 I do get some stragglers to my blog from that site so I try to keep me on the first page of my category which is Stay at home moms :)) I am going to have to check out your book for my kindle…Going on a long family vacation in July and I will need LOTS to read!
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Thank-you for doing that!!!!!
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My very best friend is a pedi nurse practitioner, as well. You ladies are quite spectacular. My baby sis is an RN and working towards hers. I love nurses. You have a great sense of humor (most nurses do)! So glad you found my blog. I look forward to following yours. ~Audrey
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Thank-you Audrey. Being a PNP is probably the best job in the world. You get to talk with little kids all day and goof around with them (I work an outpatient subspecialty clinic – so very little heartbreak – I have had my share of that over the years being a PNP). I love it (although I could do without the paperwork – AARGH!) I am excited about following your blog as well. We redheads have to stick together. Maybe that is what I will do ‘R’ on – redheads.
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Hey, SD! Not sure if you do this kind of thing or not, but I enjoy your work so I nominated you for The Versatile Blogger award. Cheers! http://www.baffledbaboon.com/the-versatile-blogger-award/
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Thank-you so very much!!! This is very exciting!!!!!
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You are more than welcome!
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You made it on my Friday’s Top 5 😀 http://domesticatedmomster.com/2015/05/08/fridays-top-5-58/
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I did?!!! How cool!!! Thanks!!!
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Thank you so much for following me and liking my posts as well. 🙂
Anyway, you have a very interesting blog.
Have a great weekend 🙂
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Thanks for following me and looking at the posts. Your posts are brilliant and make me realize I am not as smart I would like to think!!!!!
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You are welcome.
We all still have so much to learn 🙂
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True!!!!! I do like your site, but the mathematical formula on the Talent vs technique made my brain cramp momentarily. I’m ok now!
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I admit that while that formula was very easy for mathematicians, it’s actually quite complicated for others… especially if you need to do it in your head 🙂
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Oh good – then it’s just not me.
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“From Cornflakes to Eternity” sounds interesting 😀
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Thanks. It was fun to write and really therapeutic. One of my readers called it an “Ethical Fantasy”.
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Thank you for following my blog and I loved the Chicken Man and have shared. You are right, far too many people behind the scenes that are essential to the smooth running of every organisation rarely get recognition.
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I entirely agree and since my wonderful encounter with the Chicken Man, I have made it my mission to seek out those behind the scenes, and say Thank-you!!! Thank-you for reading and the wonderful comment!!!!
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My pleasure.. hope more read it.. best wishes Sally
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Hey,I have nominated you for liebester award check it out here
https://bedifferentbuddy.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/191/
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Heya,I have nominated you for liebester award check it out here
https://bedifferentbuddy.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/191/
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Thank-you so much!!!!
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You’re welcome! 😊
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Thanks Anxious Mom.
I did it, I actually accepted the challenge and did it!!!
Yay!!!!!
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Hiya! I nominated you for the Infinity Dreams Award.
Come take a look if you’re interested 🙂
https://keepaweathereye.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/infinity-dreams-award/
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I bet we all had bigger hair back in the 80s!
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I love watching the music videos back then, with all the long-haired band members. I am trying to grow my hair so I can be like a geriatric (well not quite) Twisted Sister guy.
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Hello SD,
I saw “From Cornflakes to Eternity” on Amazon. I’d like to discuss this book with you. Please contact me when you get a moment.
Thank you,
Alison
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Hi Alison – how do I get in touch with you?
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Hi
I know Abyss Brain. I came to thank you so much for following my blog. Did you know I am a teacher? I relate to children too. Once again, welcome!
Janice, Reflections
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Thank-you for the welcome and also for coming to visit my blog. It is very nice to meet you!!!!!
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Hi S.D. I was overdue visiting your great Ruminations page, my friend.
So I have to share my ghostly story. I was assigned an overnight Stacy Jones Ghost Hunter experience at our downtown theater to write a feature piece when I was working for the big daily. The Landmark Theatre is said to house a very famous ghost, Clarissa. I didn’t see her that night, but did experience things that fueled my thoughts. The folks I was hanging out with kept taking photos of mirrors, and lights that WERE NOT THERE kept showing up in the photos, for instance. When we were herded into a supply room in the dingy basement, a can of nails came flying off a wall shelf on its own. You never saw 25 people jump so high at once. And the biggie for me was when I was one of a handful surrounding one of those scanners the knowing said communicated with the spirits. Voices drifted in and out as it, well, scanned. All of a sudden, a voice said “Mork” clear as a bell, sounding much like my dear Pop Pop did back in Brooklyn 30 years past, not quite Mark, but that accent …
Now.
I have tagged you in the Allergic to ‘E’ Challenge. Sound easy. Have fun. Happy Friday. 🙂
http://markbialczak.com/2015/06/19/allergic-to-the-letter-e-challenge/
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That’s a really cool story! Did your Pop Pop frequent that theater? I love those scanners – they fascinate me. I wonder though – do they attract only those spirits that reside in the building or do you think perhaps your Pop Pop is with you wherever you go (kind of like a Guardian Angel that is always by your side) which would be even more amazing. Thanks for the nomination – I will get on it this evening.
PS. I went to Alcatraz with my kids one summer – I had those headphones on they give you for the walking tour. I was standing by a cell, with my back to it and all of a sudden I heard this gravelly “Hey” in my right ear, I could feel whoever’s breath it was on my neck. Funny thing was, my son heard it as well. Scared the snot out of me. I want to do the night tour there, but I am kind of chicken. I think the ghosts of the prisoners probably get a kick out of scaring vulnerable visitors – and I would be a prime target.
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My grandfather never got from Brooklyn to the theater in Syracuse, to my knowledge, S.D. I didn’t move here until after he passed. So it must be that spirits can go wherever they darn please.
I’d be chicken to go to the Alcatraz night tour, too, by the way, even before the voice and breath in your ear. Quite frankly, the whole ghostly thing falls in the “spooky” category for me.
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Me too, but I am oddly obsessed about ghosts and spirits. There has to be so much more around us than we can see, Sometimes when I examining children in the clinic, especially the little ones, it is quite obvious they are staring at things that the rest of us cannot see. It’s really weird. I was talking to a little kid, and he kept on wriggling around, and I wasn’t even examining him. I asked him why he was wriggling – and he told me the little kid was tickling him. But there were no other kids in the room, only me and his parents. I must say I was a little unsettled by the whole experience. Spooky!!!!!
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Exactly, S.D. I’m glad you are writing novel about it, my friend.
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It was great fun to write!!!!
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I hope you don’t mind that I have tapped you again, S.D. You’re so darn good with your responses, my friend. This one is called Five Photos Five Series. If you should so choose … 🙂 Have a great Monday
http://markbialczak.com/2015/06/22/the-doc-makes-house-calls/
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Again, thank-you for the challenge. This will be tough one especially after seeing your great post!!!
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I know your innovation will once again rise to the top, S.D. 🙂
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Hi SD
Thanks so much for following my blog ‘Half-Eaten Mind’. I look forward to reading more from you.
Vijay
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I look forward to reading more of your posts too!!!!!
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hey, I just wanted to let you know that I gifted my mom with a copy of your book. I am so jealous that she now has a beautiful paperback of it.
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That is so exciting!!! Thank-you for letting me know!!! Did she like the cover?
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I haven’t asked about the cover. But she is reading it really quickly, even though she says it is scary.
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Tell her that photo was taken at Bodie – which a ghost town on the Eastern side of the Sierras. My boys and I went over there to explore. Very creepy place. I hope your Mom is enjoying it.
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She loved it!
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Cool!!!!! Tell her thank-you so much for reading the book!!!!!!
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I find writing very therapeutic, too. I’m so glad our paths have crossed here today.
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Me too!!!!!
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Thank-you for following me. I just traipsed over to your blog and found the most fascinating posts!!!!!
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The feeling is mutual! I look forward to many more wonderful reads.
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Thank-you, my new friend!!!!
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Very interesting intro 🙂
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You sound like a fabulously interesting person! Glad to have found you through Suzie’s Blog Party 🙂
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Ha-ha – I don’t think I am, but thank-you for saying so!!!!! Thank-you for coming over to my little blog!!!!!
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Just read you piece on the Drought. You have a new follower.
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Ooo, thank-you so much!!!!!
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What do you know, another nurse (I’m retired, now), with a military background (but I was a spy, long before a midlife career change into healthcare). I appreciate your Liking my “chat” at the “party” on Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog, back on May 24. (My response rate is slow, but it is sincere.) Thanks!
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You were a spy? Really – how cool is that. Thanks for coming over!!!!
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Yes, I was a cryptologic technician, back in the 70s. I even worked at NSA. Cool? Well, yeah, in a way. But it was a pretty boring job, most of the time. Not at all how Hollywood imagines it.
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Well, I think that is pretty exciting. Much ore exciting than anything I have ever done.
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Love your blog! Will head over to Amazon next. Thanks for stopping by my blog, and I’m glad you enjoyed my post. Hope you’ll stop by often, doors always open at Jean’s Writing.
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Ooo! thanks so much for coming by!!!! Will be right over!!!!
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Thank you for following our website. We sincerely appreciate your support. Cheers!
-Marpay Fitness
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Researching bios and abouts, as you know. Love the relaxed tone and authenticity of yours. And that it’s interesting! ❤️
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Thank-you!!!!
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Nice to read about you. I didn’t know you already have a book out. Good to know! I was a children’s mental health counselor (the 0-5 crowd). Maybe that’s part off the reason I so enjoy the “voice” of this blog. 😀
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I love pediatric nurses- having spent a bit of time with my kids in hospitals. I think I’ve discovered you post blog challenge, but it’s a happy discovery and I look forward to reading more!
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We love what we do, because kids are the best!!!! I am glad you came by and found my little blog! Thank-you!!!!
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