: About Me

I spent most of my nursing career as an academic with a focus on the blend of nursing and anthropology, the research process, and obesity. I co-authored two textbooks on nursing research as well as a book of readings on nursing and anthropology. I founded a nursing research journal (The Western Journal of Nursing Research) and served as it's editor for almost 30 years..

My peer reviewed articles were based upon my research : admitting heroin addicts to in-patient psychiatric wards; ethnographies of the Northern Paiute Indians of Nevada; a small depressed commuity in Eastern Kentucky, and of the Annang of Eastern Nigeria; as well as an NIH funded study of unsuccessful compared to successful dieters.

The articles that seemed to receive the most attention were on The Fattening Room among the Annang of Nigeria (Medical Anthopology 1989); The Patient as a Victim (American Journal of Nursing, 1984); Traditional Birth Attendants among the Annang of Nigeria (Social Science and Medicine:  Medical Anthropology, 1982); Childhood Memories about Food:  The Successful Dieters Project (Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychaitric Nursing, 1999); Toward a Definition of a Successful Dieter (Clinical Nursing Research, 1993) and the Stigma of Obesity (Journal of Clinical Nursing Research, 1994).

I have been a breeder of German Shepherd Dogs for the past 30 years, showing them in both conformation and obedience in the United States and Canada.  My greatest pleasure as a breeder was to find a loving home for my babies.  Dogs have given me so much joy that I am delighted when one of my puppies forms a srong bond with the owner. They teach us so much.

My current writing interests lie with successful weight loss, religion/spirituality and a memoir of my childhood years as a prisoner of war under the Japanese during World War II in the Philippines. I also publish with Associated Content.

My passion is ...

my dogs, dieting research and my faith

I know too much about ...

unsuccessful dieting

My parents always told me ...

to clean my plate.

My childhood ambition ...

was to have a house in the country with a stableful of horses.

Why I write ...

I think I have something to share.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

historical murder mysteries and dieting research

My first job ...

was as an evening charge nurse on a surgical ward.

My best moment ...

Liberation from a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines -1945

My inspiration ...

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Religion & Spirituality > Christian Beliefs & Culture What is Christian love?

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Christian love is a choice we make every moment of our lives to live up to the example of Jesus and his teachings. Christian love is not a feeling; it is a decision about how to behave toward others.   It is difficult to love a God we cannot see. If we are convinced that we were created in the image and likeness of God, and that we are all reflections of God, then we must treat each other, who we can see, with the love and respect we would treat God. Love is a word we use every day to express a wide range of emotional attachments from simple liking to a passionate obsession. “I ...

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