The shortage of nursing professionals in the US has gotten a lot of press in the last couple years. There are even programs I’ve heard of where you attending nursing school on certain government (state government, I believe) loans and after you graduate and are practicing for a certain number of years, the loans are [...]
There’s something new going on at the website dedicated to my favorite imaginary country, the Island of West Xylophone. The Photo Gallery of West Xylophone Online is now open! The first galleries show pictures of the beaches, the cocoon of the world’s largest butterfly, the Pterodactyl Butterfly and the fruit cultivated by the fairies in [...]
Mwa Ramotswe The first I ever heard of bush tea or rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) was in the wonderful novel The Number One Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith in 2003. In it, a modest, intelligent and independent (and “traditionally sized”) woman named Precious Ramotswe opens a detective agency. During down times and periods of [...]