A FRIDGE FULL OF FOOD...

New Daily Tiffin LunchBox Article

I have a new lunchbox article with recipes up at The Daily Tiffin called "Meat? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Meat!".

Also, I'm compiling the Tackiest Gift Stories now...

CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE NURSES' SOUL: SECOND DOSE

Just FYI, my Chicken Soup book is now available at Barnes & Noble.  I've been told by a couple of people now that they got it there.

This is so exciting!

Auntie Miranda made me autograph her copy last night which gave me the giggles but it was fun. Thanks, Auntie! You always know the perfect thing to do to make me smile.

it's Here!

It's taken a year from when I was first contacted but my Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul book is finally here:

It should be available anywhere Chicken Soup books are normally sold. My story is titled "Two Choices"  on page 218.

Ahhhhh! My name in print = warm fuzzies! :-)

New Lunch Box Post at The Daily Tiffin

I have a new lunchbox article up at The Daily Tiffin complete with instructions for making the sandwiches and updates on my diet.  As Agent Lundy on Dexter said "It's all about the cream cheese."  Well, more specifically, it's all about seasoning the cream cheese.

New to The Daily Tiffin

I'm a new writer to The Daily Tiffin, subtitled For A Healthy Family Lifestyle blog. It's a nice place to go for current information and recipes about all things healthy.  I'll be in a revolving schedule posting about once a month showing/giving lunchbox ideas and recipes.

My article is here:  Legumes to the Lunchbox Rescue  and then fell free to wander around for lots of great information.

My Job Interview

Pay Scales web site, "True tales of working people who do what they love and love what they do", contacted me through this blog for an interview about Respiratory Therapy.  Wow, you never know where blogging will lead, do you?

To read the interview, click HERE.

Woohooo!

Yes!  Just finished inputting all of the handwritten pages into my novel, Letters from My Bath,  from what I wrote during vacation and it came to a grand total of 6,205 words plus I also wrote two long poems.  That puts me to 33,470 words towards the 80,000 of my completed novel.

I suddenly feel like celebrating!

Goals 2007

What's a New Year's Day without thinking our goals of the upcoming year? I know that's a burden to some people but I enjoy it. Yes, I'm a masochist about these things. But really, I look at my list not as a jail sentence but as a chance to keep on track. So with that in mind, here my goals are. Behold me as I am.

GOALS 2007

• Writing:
• Finish 1^st Draft “Letters From My Bath”
• Finish first draft by Jan 31, 07 (my birthday) = $1,600 words/day
• Polish Letters from My Bath Feb 1-March 31^st
• Write Query letter
• Start sending out by Feb 28^th while continuing to polish novel
• Re-write “Corporate Policy”
• Finish re-writes by Jan 31^st
• Write Query letter
• For submissions by Feb 28^th
• Resubmit to contests beginning Feb 1^st
• Start next big project: screenplay or novel by April 1, 07
• To be Determined
• Monthly:
• 1 Magazine article or essay
• 1 Short Story
• 1 Poems
• 1 Batch Greeting Cards or Bumper Sticker/ T-shirt slogans
• 1 recipe or cake design for cookbook in the future
• Weekly:
• 2 Submission of any kind (104 total for the year)
• Food Blog:
• “A Fridge Full of Food…and nothing to eat.”
• Post 5 days per week and participate regularly in events:
• Monday: Dr's Kitchen Monday
• Tuesday: ARF, Antioxidant Rich Foods Tuesday hosted by Sweetnicks
• Wednesday: To be Determined
• Thursday: Weekend Herb Blogging hosted by Kalyn's Kitchen
• Friday: Cake Decorating or Desserts
• Bi-Monthly:
• Weekend Breakfast Blogging hosted by Saffron Trail
• Monthly:
• Does My Blog Look Good in This, hosted by Amateur Gourmet
• WOBAT: Weekend Obnoxious But Amazingly Tasty by me, AFFOF
• It's a Piece of Cake hosted by me, A Fridge Full of Food
• HEALTH:
• Lose 75 lbs
• Work out at Meyer’s Center 3 days per week
• Follow Dr. Brenda’s food program
  EDUCATION:
• Read books from the classics lists
• Practice flute 1 hour per week
• Practice piano 1 hour per week
• HOME:
• Reinstitute FlyLady zones for housecleaning
• Clean/Organize/Ebay every room
• Emergency kits
• FAITH:
• Read scriptures and inspirational books daily
• Pray Daily
• Go to Church when not scheduled to work

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man." -- Benjamin Franklin

It's Here! "Musings on The Art of Medicine"

This is a little non-food catch up post.  I worked all weekend and have a cold so I'm not moving real fast on Doctor's Kitchen Monday, although I have decided what I'm going to do. Hopefully will be able to knock that out tomorrow.

However, in the meantime, much more exciting to me is this.  I'm officially a published poet.  I wrote "Code Blue" following my first code experience as a student in respiratory school. It's been published by The University of Oklahoma's School Medicine literary journal called "Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine".  I'm on page 8, I whisper to myself...

I've published a few other things: the recipe in the 2007 Farmer's Almanac, two cross stitch designs, several small online food articles, but this one is really special to me.  I love holding the magazine in my hand.  I don't know if I can explain it but all I've ever wanted to do is write. I am a writer. I've never doubted myself. I have always felt, when I finish a story or a poem, that it's the same as me saying "Here. This is me.  This is a small piece of who I am, the best of who I am."  That's what holding this magazine means to me.

Code Blue

By Glenna Anderson Muse

Your flesh still warm

Beneath my palms as I

Compress your rib cage.

Short spurts of blood

Travel your arteries,

A precious cargo of oxygen.

Your mouth slack,

Eyes half closed.

No light behind them

That I can see.

My biceps shudder

Sweat drips off me

To fall on you.

The whoosh of the

Ambu bag competes

With doctor orders

And nurse-called numbers.

And then as if

An actor taking a cue

You breathe.

Your heart pumps.

Back from vacation,

A hiatus of

Bodily indecision.

Released from duty

I step into the bathroom.

While washing my hands

I thank God

For your life.

I realize

I don’t even

Know your name.

2007 Old Farmer's Almanac

On page 172 of the 2007 Old Farmer's Almanac, the original Ben Franklin, Old Farmer's Almanac (beware of the copycats) you'll find a recipe published by yours truly, she writes grinning wildly.  I won second place in their rice recipe contest.  They also have it on the almanac website, I'm sure just for me so I can stare at my name in print for several hours a day grinning like a fool.  After all, it IS the Farmer's Almanac, not some little regional magazine with a circulation of 13 people on a mountain top in Tibet.  It made my heart go pitterpat to pick it up in the grocery store and flip open the page to find my name.  I know it's only a recipe but I'm excited anyway.