until another school year begins.
This year I’m teaching a brand new course that I developed this summer – Advanced Community (Public) Health Nursing.
I’m really looking forward to teaching it as there are so many interactive components and none of the assignments are “fluffy” as some students like to say.
One of the most exciting assignments will be the social marketing viral video (on a public health topic of their choice) that the students will have to make. They will have to post them to YouTube and Facebook! Plus I’ll link them to my blog so hopefully their messages will be spread far and near.
I’m also taking a class through the University of Minnesota on Nursing Informatics and working on several articles for publication.
In November, I’ll be heading to Philadelphia – on my most favorite places – to the American Public Health Association National Conference where I’m presenting two oral sessions and one poster session.
It’s going to be a busy semester with work and FUN!
Tagged: BYU
One week and counting…
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and they all came…
the whole family came to utah for a visit.
mom was here for 10 days – jim was back home coaching football, bummer!
tony, danielle, and jasmine were here for 4 days.
it was great to see them!
i hadn’t seen mom since tony’s wedding and tony and jasmine since november…too long.
mom and i spent a lot of time together – shopping, more shopping, and even more shopping.
oh and i even got a sewing machine, which makes janie very happy!
we also went to sundance, park city, the great salt lake, temple square, byu, the wilson wedding reception, and attended the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house.
tony and danielle took a hike at mt. timpanogos too.
my house is now quiet and missing 4 people. kind of lonely too, but what a great time.
enjoy the pictures and videos (beware, jas is just like her dad – crazy!).
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becky came to utah!
i dropped beck off at the train station at 5am…so sad.
i am so lucky…i am so blessed!
i have the most wonderful cousin in the world.
she’s like a sister to me. even though we’re different…
we’re still so much a like.
i love her dearly.
it was cool that we go to spend 4 full days together.
we did so much in so little time…
the cupcake shops, were yummy…
the thrift stores, had great finds…
the shopping, was much needed…
the sights, Park City – Sundance – SLC, were so worth seeing…
the hiking of the Y, though not quite Moab, was fabulous…
enjoy the pictures!
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Graduation Speaker, wow!
At the College of Nursing’s commencement, we had a wonderful speaker – Salt Lake’s famous Highland High School rugby team’s coach, Larry Gelwix.
The Highland Team is featured in a movie called Forever Strong.
Larry was an amazing speaker – really.
Enjoy a snippet (4 minutes) from his graduation speach.
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The 4 month mark (plus 2 days) & 2 graduations later…
It’s officially been 4 months and 2 days since I pulled my SUV into my new garage with Victoria in tow and Max desperately wanting more space than the back seat.
My first semester at BYU is over! I taught, worked with fabulous students, met amazing faculty and staff, adapted to a new culture (ok, still adapting) and was filled with so many tender mercies.
“…that the Lord’s tender mercies are the very personal and individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance, loving-kindnesses, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts which we receive from and because of and through the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Ensign – 2005, May, The Tender Mercies of the Lord, Elder David A. Bednar)
There is no way I could have made it through without those blessings.
They came in so many forms – from visits (and long chats) from Corinne, Jamie, Onalee, and Becky, constant talks from Patty the Assistant Dean, kind words from my students, loving and supportive friends here in Utah, sightings of friends from MN on campus, my mom’s listening ear, dedicated home teachers in the Fairbanks, and to opportunities to serve others.
This week, I participated in my first BYU graduation(s). They really were wonderful, not too long and painful! A nice surprise.
Once again, I was blessed with a tender mercy from the Lord.
One of our BYU nursing students is Meredith Evans Shatzer. Meredith was just in junior high school when I first met her and her family. Her dad was serving as the Mission President in Minneapolis when I decided to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Her dad and family finished up their service and left Minneapolis. I have been able to stay connected – knowing how things were going – and vice versa through mutual friends (yeah, for the Clarks!). Yet, when I came to BYU, there was Meredith in one of my classes – in her last semester of the program.
Small world.
It was nice to have a Minnesota connection right there with me.
Today, Meredith graduated. It was wonderful. She is bright, articulate, beautiful and is going to be a wonderful nurse. For me though, was the blessing that I got in being able to see her parents once again. Her father and mother are so kind and loving. It’s a special feeling that I can’t describe because of the impact they had on my life.
They said so many wonderful things to me that reminded me why I came to BYU. President Evans talked to some of my colleagues about my conversion (something many of them didn’t know) and I think it helped them understand me – as I have spent the entire semester understanding them…This wasn’t a bad thing, so don’t misunderstand me, it’s just the transition of so many facets of this new change.
It really was a great way to end my first 4 months and begin the next semester – off to Australia in 6 days!
Enjoy the pictures from today’s graduation.
“But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance” (1 Ne. 1:20).
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The BYU Girls
April 17th, the girls and I went to lunch at Legends Grille on campus to celebrate the end of the semester.
It was a great afternoon. So much to catch up on and lots of good news all around. Rickelle, Laurie, Jenet, and Michelle were so great to me during my first 4 months of life in UT!
Congrats Jenet! We’re so happy for you.
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Dwight?
So today my Assistant Dean (who I adore) brought me this article on new comers in the work place.
She said when she read it that it reminder her of me. Ha! She clarified by stating that it was a good thing not bad.
I guess I’ve never considered myself a Dwight, as I surely hope I’m not that weird (no comments from the peanut gallery) but I will say I’m definitely “socially ‘distinct’” here in UT.
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It’s been 3 months, already?
It’s been exactly 3 months since I left Minnesota for Utah. The funny thing is that to me it feels like it’s been 3 years.
I was telling my mom on Tuesday night about how I’ve been feeling since I left and how crazy sometimes I think I am for moving across the country for this amazing opportunity.
I think it’s easy to get discouraged, to get down, to feel lost, and to want to go home -even though I’m not sure where that would be.
Either way, I’ve been thinking a lot about how even through all the challenges and moments of shear panic about this huge change in my life, I truly am blessed.
I’ve learned more about myself in the last 3 months then I had in the last 3 years in Minnesota. I’ve learned who are my true friends. I’ve learned about what love really means. I’ve definitely learned about being open minded and I’ve learned about leaning…leaning on the one person who is always there no matter what.
I am grateful for all the small moments, especially in the last few weeks. For people checking in on me, dropping by the house just to say hi, checking in on me when I’ve been in pain and mostly I’m more grateful than ever before for my mom.
I was thinking back to when Minnesota became home…wondering how long it took, when it actually happened. After leaving Wisconsin, I never thought anywhere else would be that place for me and I guess deep down because I grew up there it will always be in my heart and part of my soul but as I drove out of my driveway on December 19, 2008, I knew that Minnesota really had become my home. It was where I became an adult, where I grew up, where I came into my own in my career and where I found the greatest gift of my life.
Minnesota was where my heart was…I’ve had to let go a little bit to start to grow here in Utah. Right now, Utah, really isn’t home yet – I’m not sure if it will be but I’m staying open and letting it be a process and only time will tell. I know that most of it really is up to me.
More than ever, I was reminded of this. At BYU, every Tuesday, there is a hour long devotional. Everything stops – no classes, no meetings, etc. – I try to attend these as it’s such an amazing blessing to have that small amount of time just to regroup. I also get to tape them on TV here in UT – one of the perks of living here. This week’s devotional spoke so strongly to me, I wanted to share it with you. Take the time to listen. It has application to so many things in our lives and the experiences we all go through no matter what you religion you belong. Devotional: Carol Wilkinson.
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Sitting in a hotel room.
I’m sitting a hotel room in New Mexico. I’ll be here until Monday…sigh…I hate hotel rooms and I hate conferences.
The funny part of this whole trip is it reminds me of Pulaski. Why?
First, I’m staying in a an Embassy Suites. Big deal, right? Well, my mom use to work in Green Bay and there was an Embassy Suites close to her work. We’d drive by it frequently and it also just happend to be by Port Plaza Mall. We also had a family reunion or some sort of birthday gathering there once as well. Again, big deal, right? Funny part is this hotel is exactly like the Embassy Suites in Green Bay, same layout, same type of elevator over looking the rooms. It’s like being a teen-ager all over again.
Second, while I’m here I’m using my “free” time to work on two articles and a grant that I’m going to submit for publication and funding respectively. So, this means, I’m doing a bunch of writing and editing. In the mean time, I heard back from Kathy Gerds that she ran our class reunion announcement in the next edition of the Pulaski News. So I decided to take a break from my own writing and check out the latest edition of the Pulaski News.
The Pulaski News rocks. I love this paper and I love Kathy. She has been a constant staple in my life. She and my dad were colleagues and friends. She was one of my very first mentors and favorite teacher. As I sit here and spend my nights in the hotel room writing, I’m reminded that I can do that because of Kathy and the Pulaski News.
I know I’m not the only one that feels that way either. The Pulaski News was featured in the Green Bay, Bay Business Journal. It’s a great article and captures the love those of us who worked for the Pulaski News, who served the Pulaski Community and who love Kathy feel about it all.
So that’s my life here in the hotel room in New Mexico…pretty exciting…but always good to be reminded where we come from so that we know where we’re going.
And…I would show you the view from my hotel room but #1 I don’t have my camera cord and #2 it’s really not that exciting.
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