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    Tag: Creative Writing

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    Tuesday, February 16, 2016

    Their Stories post featuring two creative dating profiles!

    In celebration of Valentine’s Day, this week’s Their Stories post features two dating profiles that end up a perfect match. Love is in the air! Portrait #1 Photo received by Matchmaker Dolly, with completed application as follows: Name: Donald Bence Arthur Age: 57 Height: 5’ 5” Weight: 168 lbs. Hair: mostly brown Eyes: depends on…

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    Unidentified portrait from the Thomas Bouckley Collection

    Wednesday, February 10, 2016

    Their Stories – Unidentified Portraits 3 and 9

    This week’s Their Stories posting includes a letter and a short first-person story. Be inspired by one of the unidentified portraits and participate by posting on the wall in the exhibition space or in the comments below!   Portrait #3 A lapsed Jesuit The day that I was asked to sit for this photograph was…

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    Unidentified Portrait from the Thomas Bouckley Collection

    Saturday, February 6, 2016

    Unidentified Portrait #2 – Story by Freda Jepson

    This past fall, I put a call out to the community to submit creative writing entries to accompany unidentified portraits in The Thomas Bouckley Collection. With ten portraits to choose from, submissions included diary entries, letters, short stories, poetry and even a dating profile. I was so pleased with the number we received and the…

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    vintage portrait

    Thursday, February 4, 2016

    Unidentified Portrait #1 – Story by Mat Calverley

    This past fall, I put a call out to the community to submit creative writing entries to accompany unidentified portraits in The Thomas Bouckley Collection. With ten portraits to choose from, submissions included diary entries, letters, short stories, poetry and even a dating profile. I was so pleased with the number we received and the…

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    What is a Student Nurse?

    Student nurses are to be found everywhere, underneath, on top of, running around, jumping over or slithering past patients’ beds. Doctors overlook them, mothers worry about them and patients love them.

    A student nurse is courage under a cap, a smile in snowy white, strength in starched skirts, energy that is endless, the best of young womanhood, a modern Florence Nightingale. Just when she is gaining poise and prestige, she drops a glass, breaks a syringe or steps on a doctor’s foot.

    A student nurse is a composite. She eats like a team of hungry interns and works like the whole nursing staff put together. She has the speed of a gazelle, the strength of an ox, the quickness of a cat and the endurance of a flagpole sitter. To the head nurse she has the stability of mush, the fleetness of a snail, the mentality of a mule and is held together by starch, adhesive tape and strained nerves. To an alumnus, she will never work as hard, carry more trays, make more beds or scrub on more cases than her predecessors.

    A student nurse likes days off, boys her own age, the O.R., affiliations, certain doctors, pretty clothes, her roommate and Mom and Dad. She is not much on working 3-11, days off with classes, alarm clocks, getting up for roll call or eating corned beef every Tuesday.

    A student nurse is a wonderful creature. You can criticize her but you can’t make her quit. Might as well admit it, whether you are a head nurse, doctor, alumnus or patient, she is your personal representatives of the hospital, your living symbol of faith and sympathetic care.

    Author Unknown, 1963 Year Book