Have you been hooked by the song in this year’s Target commercial?
No, the song is not available for purchase; it is a customized version of My Patch by Jim Noir.
Month: December 2007
I Fostered a Baby Elephant, Tong Jan
Yesterday was Blogger’s Unite, a day to do something good for some aspect of society. With so much need in the world, I was not really sure where to start, so I decided to start with a baby elephant, Tong Jan.
I fostered her after reading her sad story before she came to Elephant Nature Park, and after learning how she was rescued when she was three months old. As life-long lover of elephants, I always wondered at them from afar. They seemed magical and majestic, yet after digging a little further (and previously fostering another elephant, Max), I learned that elephants can be particularly needy and savagely abused. Their size can certainly hide their amount of mistreatment.
I did not plan to foster another elephant before the holidays, but it was the challenge of Blogger’s Unite that got me to consider doing something, even minor, to help make the world a better place.
Central Park and the Zoo
Over the weekend I spent some time in New York City’s Central Park, walking around to clear my mind and relieve stress. I snapped a few photos of my time while walking by the Chess and Checkers House, going inside the Dairy, and spanding some time in the Central Park Zoo and Children’s Zoo. I uploaded the pictures I took there to Flickr.
Bloggers Unite – Tomorrow, 12/17
To put a face to bloggers, tomorrow is the Bloggers Unite, a day for those who blog to do an act of kindness and goodwill together, each in our own way. What should I do?Disciplinary Perspectives on Evidence-Based Practice: The More the Merrier
Another editorial I wrote with two of my colleagues, Joanne Singleton at Pace University and Rona Levin at Pace University and Visiting Nurse Service of New York, was just published in the current issue of Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, Volume 21, Number 4. Entitled Disciplinary Perspectives on Evidence-Based Practice: The More the Merrier, we considered the question: What does evidence-based practice mean and how is it defined and used by various disciplines?
Do I smell a research thread around evidence-based practice, especially in the area of scholar-practitioners? Let’s see, where is my copy of Donald Schon’s Reflective Practitioner?