Lensography for Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS
This is the lensography, or collection of lenses, for lensmaster Kirsti A. Dyer a.k.a. lensmaster Comfortdoc and Griefdoc.
Depending on the situation and the circumstances, I wear a variety of hats, hence the various aliases... Comfortdoc, Griefdoc, Momdoc and Professordoc.
With a background in medicine, an interest in grief, loss and bereavement, current job titles of professor and health educator, a mother of two young daughters ages 7 and 5, and a former NICU parent, my areas interests are varied and diverse.
Photo Source: Sanja Gjenero. Healthy Apple. Royalty Free Use.
Comfortdoc - Griefdoc - Momdoc - Professordoc - Lensdoc - Blogdoc - Greendoc
A Physician, Health Educator, Grief Educator, Mother, Lensmaster and Nature Lover
Momdoc - This is the identity that I gained in 2000 with the birth of my oldest daughter and reconfirmed with the birth of my youngest in 2002.
Comfortdoc - This is the identity that I took on in 2005, redefining the focus of the grief and loss work to what I really wanted to be doing, providing comfort to those coping with loss.
Professordoc - This is the identity that I attained once I started teaching at the College and Graduate level settings in 2004.
Lensdoc - This is the identity that I attained once I became a Lensmaster on Squidoo in the Summer of 2007.
Greendoc - This is the identity that I took on in the Spring of 2008 with the launch of the My Green Doc Blog and My Green Sac.
Blogdoc - This is the identity that I realized I took on in Summer 2007 when I started writing my first blog.
What is a Lensography?
Lensography Defined
Many lensmasters also include personal information about him or herself, much like a biography.
This definition is a combination of several definitions of lensographies from the original Squidoo Lensographers e.g. (Thefluffanutta, MrLewisSmile and N376 a.k.a. Glen)
My Professional Bio's and C.V.
More information on Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS, FT
- My Squidoo Lensmaster Page
- My Squidoo Lensmaster Page for Comfortdoc
- Curriculum Vitae
- My Online Professional Curriculum Vitae.
- NICU Biography
- My NICU Focused Biography.
- Professional Biography
- My Professional Biography.
- LinkedIn Profile
- My LinkedIn Profile.
- Community of Science Expertise Profile
- My Community of Science Expertise Profile.
- My .docstoc Profile
- My .docstoc profile showcasing several lectures and presentations.
Dr. Dyer Joins the Giant Squid 100 Club
In July 2008 Dr. Dyer achieved the coveted Giant Squids 100 or Giant The 100 Club status on Squidoo.In order to qualify for the Giant Squid 100 Club you have to have 100 lenses judged to be high-quality by the Squidoo Team and the Giant Squid Team.
Thanks to all for the honor.
Dr. Dyer A Giant Squid, Squid Gigantea or SUS
Joining the Squids of Unusual Size Lensmasters
I am pleased to report that I have achieved Giant Squids status on Squidoo, joining the elite squad of the best and most prolific lensmasters on Squidoo.I prefer to think of the Giant Squids as Squid Gigantea (in reference to the Sequoia Gigantea Redwoods) or Squids of Unusual Size (SUS's) (in reference to the RUS's Rodents of Unusual size from one of my favorite movies the Princess Bride).
My Top 100 Lenses
These are my lenses that have made it to the top 100 on Squidoo, some by being Lens of the Day, some by eventually and slowly climbing the ranks.-
Loss, Grief and Bereavement
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Loss is the disappearance of something cherished, often the death of a person, loss of a relationship, loss of a job or loss of health. Grief is the entire response--mind, body and spirit--to the loss. Bereavement is the often term used when the loss...
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Horton Hears a Who
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Horton the Elephant is featured in two Dr. Seuss books, the first "Horton Hatches an Egg" and the second, "Horton Hears a Who." "Horton Hears a Who", the new feature film produced by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th...
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Southern California Fires - Information, Donations, & Technology
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California Fires of October 2007 have already caused untold damage, displacing more than a million people and causing over a billion in losses. You can help the survivors of the fires by donating cash to help in funding relief efforts. FEMA (The Fede...
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How to Write a Condolence Note or a Sympathy Note
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Taking a bit of time to write a condolence note or condolence letter can be a great source of comfort and provide a gift of healing for a friend or a loved one who is grieving a loss. According to research by Hallmark, Americans send nearly 125 mill...
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Dr. Randy Pausch - A Superhero
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Dr. Randy Pausch is a living inspiration. Diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer in 2006, he has gone on to show people how to continue *living* even after getting the diagnosis of a terminal illness. For his head-on, straight-forward, entertai...
My Lenses of the Day
I have been honored to have my lenses be the Lens of the Day on four different occasions.-
Southern California Fires - Information, Donations, & Technology
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California Fires of October 2007 have already caused untold damage, displacing more than a million people and causing over a billion in losses. You can help the survivors of the fires by donating cash to help in funding relief efforts. FEMA (The Fede...
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Squidoo SuperHero Project
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The goal of the Squidoo SuperHero Project is to create 5 lenses for charity about heroes who have inspired you, mentored you, changed the way you see the world, or just made you smile. The SuperHero Project is the brainchild of Anne Reidy, Non-Profi...
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Horton Hears a Who
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Horton the Elephant is featured in two Dr. Seuss books, the first "Horton Hatches an Egg" and the second, "Horton Hears a Who." "Horton Hears a Who", the new feature film produced by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th...
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Dr. Randy Pausch - A Superhero
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Dr. Randy Pausch is a living inspiration. Diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer in 2006, he has gone on to show people how to continue *living* even after getting the diagnosis of a terminal illness. For his head-on, straight-forward, entertai...
Comfortdoc's Featured Nonprofit/Charity Lenses
Lenses about Nonprofit Organizations or Causes
Lenses created for various charities and nonprofits, in addition to those supporting children's literacy programs.-
Grobanites for Charity and The Josh Groban Foundation - Making a Difference in the Lives of Children
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Josh Groban is the young baritone who is defining a new genre of music. This lens supports the work of the Josh Groban Foundation and the Grobanites for Charity a group of dedicated fans working to make a difference in the lives of children around th...
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Free Hugs Campaign - The Many Benefits of Hug Therapy
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The Free Hugs Campaign began as one person's attempt to make a difference and reach out to others to brighten their lives. Juan Mann describes his inspiration as follows: Standing there in the arrivals terminal, watching other passengers meeting the...
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Oprah's Angel Network - A Philanthropic Organization for Inspiring Others
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Oprah's Angel Network originated in 1997, in part, as Oprah Winfrey's response to the sudden Death of Princess Diana and the Death of Mother Teresa both in the same week. It was Oprah's first major philanthropic venture. Oprah's Angel Network was est...
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Christopher Reeve - Superman, SuperHero & Super Human Being
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Anyone around in 1978 remembers Christopher Reeve emerging on the film screen as the ultimate Superman and as a SuperHero. Yet for me, I think his true SuperHero status happened years later. I would like to introduce my SuperHeroes...Christopher Reev...
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My Good Deed - Change the World
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How will you remember 9/11? Pledge your good deed for 9/11 in memory of those lost September 11, 2001 and turn 9/11 into a national day of service and compassion. My Good Deed is a non-profit public benefit corporation that was founded in 2002 to hon...
More of Comfortdoc's Featured Nonprofit/Charity Lenses
Lenses about Nonprofit Organizations Focusing on Children
Lenses created for various charities and nonprofits, supporting children and children's literacy programs.-
Reach Out and Read - Promoting Early Childhood Literacy
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This lens focuses on Reach Out and Read (ROR). Reach Out and Read is a national non-profit organization that promotes early literacy, because growing up healthy means growing up with books. During visits to the pediatrician, children get new books an...
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First Book - Book Relief - Every Child Deserves a Bedtime Story
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Can you remember the magic of owning your first book? This is the mission of First Book, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to give children the opportunity to read and own their own first new book. First Book provide an ongoing supply of new b...
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The Alliance for a Healthier Generation
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The mission of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation is to eliminate childhood obesity and to inspire all young people in the United States to develop lifelong, healthy habits. The goals of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation are two-fold 1...
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Help a Child Go Back to School with Operation Blessing
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You are invited to get your family, friends, clubs and church groups involved and put together Pencil Case Kits as part of Operation Blessing's Pencil Case Kit project. Building Exitement & Confidence Crossing the dirt floor, a child approached...
Comfortdoc's Featured Lenses on Gratitude, Altruism & Giving Back
Looking Ways and the Health Benefits of Giving Back
Lenses looking at counting your blessings, living life with gratitude, ways of giving back, changing the world with one good deed and the health and healing benefits of giving back to others.-
Count Your Blessings
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Count your blessings, this is such a simple charge and a reminder to be grateful for what we have. Yet in the craziness and the hustle and bustle of daily living stopping to be grateful and count our blessings is often one that we fail to overlook. C...
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Click to Give - Make a Difference
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Just by volunteering a few minutes of your time and the click of a mouse, you can support a variety of charitable causes and organizations for free. You can click to donate for hunger, women's health, children's health, literacy, rainforest and anima...
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My Good Deed - Change the World
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How will you remember 9/11? Pledge your good deed for 9/11 in memory of those lost September 11, 2001 and turn 9/11 into a national day of service and compassion. My Good Deed is a non-profit public benefit corporation that was founded in 2002 to hon...
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The Health Benefits of Altruism - How Giving Back is Good For You
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Being altruistic, or reaching out to help others, not only benefits the person being helped, but practicing altruism also has many benefits for the person doing the helping. Altruism is an unselfish concern for the welfare of others. It is a g...
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Living Life with Gratitude - Living 2008 with Gratitude
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Many of the simple things in life can be reasons for being grateful. These are often things that we tend to take for granted--our health, family, friends, our livelihood--until they are brought to our attention or taken away. Remembering to be grate...
Comfortdoc's Featured Lenses about Living People Who Inspire Her
Lenses on Inspiring People
Lenses created for some of the diverse people who are still alive who inspire me or have had an influence on the direction that my life has taken.-
Josh Groban
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Josh Groban is an remarkable performer with a voice than can easily handle pop and rock music as well as classical. Generally classified as 'adult contemporary' Josh Groban is among a new generation of musicians and performers defining a new genre of...
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Maria Shriver
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Maria Shriver is an award winning journalist, best selling author and serves as the First Lady of California after her husband Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected and then re-elected as Governor of Calfironia. She is also a mother, wife, daughter, sist...
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Bindi Irwin
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The sudden, unexpected death of Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, last September left some pretty big shoes to fill, but daughter Bindi Irwin has stepped in and picked up where her father left off as a passionate wildlife warrior and spunky television p...
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Oprah Winfrey
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Oprah Gail Winfrey is thought to be the most influential woman in the world now. She is also considered to be the most philanthropic African-American of all time and one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the United States. Oprah, as she is kno...
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Dr. Andrew Weil
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Dr. Andrew Weil, physician, author, professor and wellness advocate, is changing the way that medicine may be practiced in the future by developing and teaching a blended field of study, Integrative Medicine. Since 1994 he had been the founder and di...
More Featured Lenses about Living People Who Inspire Her
Lenses on Inspiring People
Lenses created for some of the diverse people who are still alive who inspire me or who I admire for what they have done.-
Juan Mann (One Man)
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Juan Mann is perhaps better known to millions of YouTube Viewers as the "Free Hugs Guy." He has chosen to use the identity of "one man" and wants remain anonymous in his desire to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their...
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Linus Torvalds
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Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer, who now resides in the United States. He is best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel, an alternative operating systems to Microscoft. He has been dubbed "The Father of...
Comfortdoc's Featured Lenses on Musicicans Who Inspire Her
Lenses created for the musicians that inspire me.-
Freddie Mercury - Queen
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Freddie Mercury, lead singer for the Rock Band Queen, was once quoted as saying that he didn't want to be a rock star, he wanted to be a legend. While alive, Freddie Mercury was known as an entertaining and energetic rock star. Since his death at the...
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Josh Groban
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Josh Groban is an remarkable performer with a voice than can easily handle pop and rock music as well as classical. Generally classified as 'adult contemporary' Josh Groban is among a new generation of musicians and performers defining a new genre of...
Comfortdoc's Featured Lenses about People Who Have Died That Inspire Her
Lenses on Inspiring People with are No Longer with Us
Lenses created for some of the diverse people who have died who inspire me or have had an influence on the direction that my life has taken.-
Steve Irwin
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Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, was a bigger than life personality. Passionate and enthusiastic about everything that he did and the way that he lived. Perhaps that is why it was so hard for people to believe the news of his unexpected death. ...
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Diana Princess of Wales
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I was one of the thousands of people, who were stunned and in shock 10 years ago by the tragic death of Princess Diana and then a few days later the death of Mother Teresa. As I watched the enormous worldwide outpouring of grief for the deaths of the...
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Christopher Reeve - Superman, SuperHero & Super Human Being
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Anyone around in 1978 remembers Christopher Reeve emerging on the film screen as the ultimate Superman and as a SuperHero. Yet for me, I think his true SuperHero status happened years later. I would like to introduce my SuperHeroes...Christopher Reev...
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD
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Dr. Elisabeth Kubler Ross has the distinction of writing the first best selling book on a topic that no one wanted to discuss. On Death and Dying, written in 1969 is still required reading for many medical, nursing, psychology programs and college de...
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John Muir
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The United States is forever indebted to John Muir, the "Father of the National Park Service" for helping to preserve this countries greatest treasures, our National Parks. John Muir (1838-1914) was America's most famous and influen...
Comfortdoc's Featured Lenses to Help Provide Support in Times of Crisis
Lenses About Helping Build and Organize Your Support Community
Lenses on two organizations that provide valuable resources which can be helpful in building and organizing your friends and family during challenging times.-
CarePages - Connect Friends and Family During Times of Challenge
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CarePages unique service allows you to create a personal, private web page to help family and friends communicate when a loved one is facing illness whether at the beginning of life as a newborn, at the end of life, or somewhere in between. Creating...
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Lotsa Helping Hands - A Way to Organize the Offers of Support
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Lotsa Helping Hands is a simple, immediate way for friends, family, colleagues, and neighbors to assist loved ones in need by organizing all of the offers of support during a time of crisis. Lotsa Helping Hands provides family and friends with an ans...
Comfortdoc's Featured Lenses on How to Write Condolence Notes or Letters
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How to Write a Condolence Note or a Sympathy Note
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Taking a bit of time to write a condolence note or condolence letter can be a great source of comfort and provide a gift of healing for a friend or a loved one who is grieving a loss. According to research by Hallmark, Americans send nearly 125 mill...
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How to Write a Condolence Letter
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Finding the right words to write a condolence letter or sympathy note may be challenging, yet the benefits can be immeasurable. A well-written, heart-felt condolence letter is a show of your support and sympathy for the person grieving the death of a...
Comfordoc's Featured Caregiver Lenses
Lenses for Caregivers about Caregiving
Lenses about many different aspects of Caregivers and Caregiving.-
Caregivers and Caregiving
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A Caregiver is "a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult." Caregiving is the care provided for that person. Caregiving is often one of the most important, demanding and stressful roles that a per...
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Caregiver Stress - The Impact of Caregiving Too Much
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Caregiver Stress is the emotional strain of caregiving for a loved one, or attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult. Caregiving can have a major impact on the caregiver's own health. Caregivers become so concerned about caring for their...
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Caregiver Grief
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Grief is important part of the caregiver experience that is often overlooked. According to Grief expert Kenneth Doka, PhD "Grief is a reaction to a loss, but it can be -- and with caregivers grief often is -- a multifaceted reaction." Man...
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Caregiver Syndrome - Caregiver Stress Syndrome
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Caregiver Stress Syndrome is a way to describe the physiological and psychological changes experienced as the result of chronic stress due to ongoing caregiving activities. Caregiver Stress Syndrome are actual physiological and psychological symptoms...
Comfortdoc's Featured NICU Lenses
Lenses for NICU Parents and Families
These are the lenses developed for parents and families who have babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.-
My Baby's in the NICU: Now What?
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The first lens in a series of lenses from the NICU Parent Support Site created to provide information, support, encouragement and resources for parents and Families who suddenly find that they have a NICU Baby--a newborn hospitalized in the Neonatal...
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My NICU Baby is Dying: Now What?
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This lens is developed to support the 1,000's of NICU Parents each year who must face the difficult realization that their NICU baby will not be discharged to home because their NICU baby is dying. Each year nearly 30,000 infants die in the United St...
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My NICU Baby has Died: Now What?
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Many parents consider the loss of a child to be the highest level of loss. The information on the site cannot take away the intense pain and sorrow you are feeling. Instead I offer information, resources and support that others who have been in simil...
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How Will I Survive the NICU? Advice for NICU Parents and NICU Families
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This lens was created to help parents survive in the NICU after they have gotten past the initial shock period, covered in the first lens My Baby's in the NICU: Now What? The focus of this lens is on the later phases of the NICU experience--the next...
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NICU Parent Support Lens
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This NICU Parent Support lens was created to organize our various lenses and provide an overview of the information, support, encouragement and resources for NICU Parents and Families, those whose newborns are hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive C...
Comfortdoc's Featured NICU Parent Support Site Lenses
Lenses for the NICU Parents Support Site
Lenses developed for Parents who have children in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.-
Free NICU eBook: For Those Who Hold the Littlest Hands
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"For Those Who Hold the Littlest Hands" is freely available eBook for NICU Parents from the NICU Parent Support Site. The eBook is filled with information, encouragement and resources to support NICU parents through their Neonatal Intensive...
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NICU Parent Support Audio & Podcast Channel
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The NICU Parent Support Audio & Podcast Channel is available now an audio message of support for Parents who have babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The channel has been described as a "useful and comforting guide" and "a v...
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NICU Expo - For Parents of NICU Babies & the Providers that Care for Them
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The NICU Expo is is an Online Event being hosted by three former NICU Parents and NICU Parenting Experts to raise awareness about parenting in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or the NICU. The NICU Expo was to have been held during November, which is...
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NICU Parent Support Lens
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This NICU Parent Support lens was created to organize our various lenses and provide an overview of the information, support, encouragement and resources for NICU Parents and Families, those whose newborns are hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive C...
Comfortdoc and Griefdoc's Featured Lenses on AIDS Awareness
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AIDS Research Alliance
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Every minute, 10 people become infected with HIV. 5 people die of AIDS each minute of every day. Only medical research can stop these numbers from spiraling.AIDS Research Alliance searches for ways to stop new HIV infections and find a cu...
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Who Wants To Live Forever? - A Reminder of the Fleeting Time
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I always find the song "Who Wants to Live Forever?" sung by lead singer Freddie Mercury from the English Rock Band Queen to be a haunting and poignant reminder of just how fleeting our time here really is. The lyrics for this song sung by F...
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Freddie Mercury - Queen
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Freddie Mercury, lead singer for the Rock Band Queen, was once quoted as saying that he didn't want to be a rock star, he wanted to be a legend. While alive, Freddie Mercury was known as an entertaining and energetic rock star. Since his death at the...
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Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
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Born out of a mother's love for her children and a desire to protect her children, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation has played an important part in the research, the eradication and the prevention of Pediatric AIDS in the United States...
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Keep a Child Alive
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A single dollar can make a difference in the life of a child with HIV. Keep A Child Alive is an urgent response to the AIDS pandemic ravaging Africa. 25 million people have already dead from AIDS, the disease continues, wiping out whole societies, t...
Comfortdoc and Griefdoc's Featured Group Lenses
Groups Run by or Co-Managed by Comfortdoc and Griefdoc
Griefdoc is the founder of the Grief and Loss Club, Imagine Peace, Caregivers and Caregiving and Squidknol Groups. Comfortdoc is the co-manager of the Everything Preemies and NICU Babies Group.-
Imagine Peace Headquarters
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Imagine Peace Group Imagine all the people, living life in peace. These words of peace and hope were penned by John Lennon more than 30 years ago. The Imagine Peace group assembles the peace keepers, peace makers and people for peace...your fri...
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Grief & Loss Club Headquarters
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The Grief & Loss Club is for lenses that have information, resources and support to anyone grieving a loss. The Grief & Loss Club is one that people do not choose to join, rather it is a club that their experience of grief has given t...
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Caregivers and Caregiving Headquarters
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Caregivers and Caregiving A group devoted to caregivers, the person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult. This group contains carefully selected lenses with information and resources for caregivers, the unsung...
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Everything on Preemies Headquarters
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Everything on Preemies and NICU Babies This group is for lenses on preemies, NICU babies and sick newborns. Our Lenses focus on support, products, research, resources or any related topic to help NICU families raise their preemie, NICU Baby or sick ne...
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SquidKnol Group Headquarters
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A group of Expert Lensmasters creating specialized Squidoo Lenses to enter resources into the world's database of information. This group is only open to members who made lens pages under the SquidKnol template.
Comfortdoc and Griefdoc's Featured Music Lenses
Lenses on Music Therapy and Music Thanatology
Lenses featuring music as therapy a way of coping with loss, with grief and at the end of life.-
Music Thanatology - Music as Therapy at the End of Life
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Music Thanatology is the practice of using music to comfort, calm and relieve the suffering of someone in the final stages of life; it is using music to ease the passage of someone who is terminally ill or dying. Since Music has been a part of my lif...
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Music Therapy - A Harmonious Complementary Therapy
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According to the American Music Therapy Association, Music Therapy is an established healthcare profession that uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals of all ages. Music therapy improves the quali...
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Josh Groban - Touching the Soul - Healing the Grieving Heart
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The first time I realized the healing effect of listening to Josh Groban sing was watching him sing 'To Where You Are' on an episode of Ally McBeal in 2001. David E. Kelly wrote the special Christmas episode as a tribute to those who had died on Sep...
Comfortdoc and Griefdoc's Featured Song Lenses
Lenses on Songs that Inspire
Lenses on some of my favorite songs of all times.-
I'll Be Home for Christmas - A Wish of Hope and Peace for the Holidays
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The classic song, "I'll Be Home for Christmas," is a song about longing to be home with the ones that you love. Listening to this beautiful melody and lyrics is one way of being home for a bit even when you're far apart...if only in your dr...
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Who Wants To Live Forever? - A Reminder of the Fleeting Time
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I always find the song "Who Wants to Live Forever?" sung by lead singer Freddie Mercury from the English Rock Band Queen to be a haunting and poignant reminder of just how fleeting our time here really is. The lyrics for this song sung by F...
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Imagine... Remembering John Lennon 1940 - 1980
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John Lennon's anthem of peace and hope has been one of my favorite songs since college. This is a collection of many different versions of one of the greatest songs of peace of all times "Imagine." News of his sudden death in 1980 ca...
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Peace on Earth / The Little Drummer Boy - 30 Years Later
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Peace on Earth / The Little Drummer Boy is one of my all time favorite Christmas Carol. The song is from an Bing Crosby Christmas special in 1977 with the very unlikely duet of Bing Crosby and a young David Bowie. It's hard to believe it has been 30...
Griefdoc's Featured Lenses
Lenses for those facing grief, loss and transitions.
Lenses developed for anyone facing a loss or grieving a loss.-
Anniversary Reaction - When Remembering Isn't Always a Happy Occasion
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Coping with the anniversary of the death of a loved one, the loss of a public figure, dealing with the aftermath of a natural disaster such as Hurricane Katrina or the national trauma of September 11, 2001 can be difficult for the family, the friends...
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Smile Though Your Heart is Aching
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A simple strategy for how to survive those most difficult of days...just smile. This lens includes a specially selected collection of videos with different versions of the classic song "Smile" written by Charlie Chaplin, John Turner a...
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How to Cope with Loss and Grief - Healthy Coping Strategies
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When faced with a loss, crisis or life-changing event, you are suddenly thrust into an unfamiliar world, one that can be frightening and unsettling. Knowing how to make it through the first few days or hours can help. This lens offers articles and re...
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Journey of Hearts - Grief, Loss & Transitions
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Journey of Hearts was launched in the Fall of 1997 as "a Healing Place in CyberSpace." It was the as the first and only physician sponsored website devoted to educating people about the normal grief response. In the fall of 2007 Jo...
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Loss, Grief and Bereavement
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Loss is the disappearance of something cherished, often the death of a person, loss of a relationship, loss of a job or loss of health. Grief is the entire response--mind, body and spirit--to the loss. Bereavement is the often term used when the loss...
Griefdoc's Featured Lenses on Children and Grief
Lenses for children facing grief, loss and transitions
Lenses developed to help children facing a loss or grieving a loss.-
Children and Grief
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Children and adolescents are not immune to facing loss, death, dying and grief; they encounter loss and will experience a grief response. Much as we, as parents and teacher, might want to protect and shelter children and try to create a world for the...
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Bunny - Oscar Winning Short Film
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I would not have believed that the computer animation studio that produced "Ice Age" would have created a short film that works as an effective resource for educating children and adults about death and dying, but this short film is a valua...
Griefdoc's Featured Death and Dying Lenses
Lenses about topics relating to Death and Dying
Lenses created about death, dying and end-of-life care or coping with the aftermath of someone who has died.-
Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep - A Poem, A Song and A Book to Comfort
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This lens is dedicated to the favorite bereavement poem, "Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep" words of sympathy that have brought comfort to many since it was written. This beloved poem has also been put to music as a stirring song and most...
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Music Thanatology - Music as Therapy at the End of Life
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Music Thanatology is the practice of using music to comfort, calm and relieve the suffering of someone in the final stages of life; it is using music to ease the passage of someone who is terminally ill or dying. Since Music has been a part of my lif...
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Bereavement Photography for Dying Babies
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There are several organizations that help to ease the grief of NICU Parents and other parents by taking professional photographs of dying newborns. Photographs create a tangible reminder of the brief moments shared between parent and child. Offering...
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Worldwide Candle Lighting - December 14, 2008
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Every year, since 1997, on the second Sunday in December The Compassionate Friends (TCF) hold a Worldwide Candle Lighting in memory of all children who have died too soon. On this day people around the world are encouraged to light a candle to so th...
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Remember September Mail Art Project
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This Creative, Commemorative Mail Art Project was developed by Gail Ellspermann in 2002 as a way for people to remember those who had died on September 11, 2001. Through the use of art, participants are encouraged to express their feelings and refl...
Momdoc's Featured Imagine Lenses
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Imagine Peace Tower - Celebrating Peace on John Lennon's Birthday
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October 9th 2007 on would have been John Lennon's 67th birthday, Yoko Ono unveiled the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island in Reykjavik, Iceland as a way of encouraging global peace. The Imagine Peace Tower is dedicated to her late husband, John Lenn...
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Imagine... Remembering John Lennon 1940 - 1980
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John Lennon's anthem of peace and hope has been one of my favorite songs since college. This is a collection of many different versions of one of the greatest songs of peace of all times "Imagine." News of his sudden death in 1980 ca...
Momdoc's Peace Lenses
Lenses created around the theme of peace and imagine peace.-
Peace Crane - Origami Paper Cranes for Peace
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Paper cranes have been used a symbol of peace since the second world war. In the 1950's a young girl Sadako Sasaki, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing, but a victim of atom bomb disease (leukemia), hoped to fold 1,000 cranes to grant her wish while...
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Peace on Earth / The Little Drummer Boy - 30 Years Later
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Peace on Earth / The Little Drummer Boy is one of my all time favorite Christmas Carol. The song is from an Bing Crosby Christmas special in 1977 with the very unlikely duet of Bing Crosby and a young David Bowie. It's hard to believe it has been 30...
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Free Hugs Campaign - The Many Benefits of Hug Therapy
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The Free Hugs Campaign began as one person's attempt to make a difference and reach out to others to brighten their lives. Juan Mann describes his inspiration as follows: Standing there in the arrivals terminal, watching other passengers meeting the...
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The Wish Tree - A Wish for Peace for AnyDay
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The Wish Tree is a lovely concept to create for your family at the holidays or anyday. Everyone writes down their wishes and then hangs the wishes on the Wish Tree. Since the 1990's the Wish Tree has been a part of many peace-promoting art exhi...
Momdoc's Featured Lenses Peace Product Lenses
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Peace Ornaments - Ornaments to Remember - For Any Time
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A special selection of Ornaments Ornaments to inspire peace and remember loved ones who have died year 'round. Some of the Ornaments are designed for high quality porcelain and available through Cafe Press stores; others have been carefully selected f...
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Imagine Peace & Love Gifts for Mom, Dad, Kids and More
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Looking for a special gift for your Mom, Mother or Mum? How about one for your Dad, Father or Daddy? Why not choose one that spreads the message of peace and love? Inspired by Imagine Peace and Valentine's Day, the Imagine Peace - Imagine Love Store...
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Imagine Peace Group and Cafe Press Gift Items
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Imagine all the people, living life in peace. These words of peace and hope were penned by John Lennon more than 30 years ago. The Imagine Peace Group and Related Imagine Peace Products, featured in the Imagine Peace Now store, carries on the legac...
Momdoc's Featured Character Lenses
These are the lenses created for some of the characters that my daughters like and I like.-
The Original Phantom of the Opera
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Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, the Opera Ghost, is a musical genius, who because of his physical deformity he masks his face. The Phantom lives far beneath the Paris Opera house in the depths of the catacombs, residing in a secret home by an undergr...
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The Phantom of The Opera
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The Phantom of the Opera began as a novel written by Gastron Leroux in 1909. In the novel we are introduced to the character Erik, or the Phantom of the Opera, a horribly deformed musical genius also known as the "Opera Ghost." Over the yea...
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The Moomins - Creations of Author and Illustrator Tove Jansson
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My mother is from Finland, so I grew up reading stories from Moomin Valley about critters called the Moomins and all of their friends. Moomins love nature and all her creatures. They possess a tolerant and open attitude toward life with a very strong...
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Nanny McPhee
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Nanny McPhee is the mysterious, amusing and a bit scary Nanny character created by Emma Thompson from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda. Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay for the film and also stars as Nanny McPhee bringing the character to life. T...
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Willy Wonka
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Willy Wonka is the amazing chocolatier, the confectionery genius, the eternal child and the dreamer of dreams first brought to life by Rohal Dahl in the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He has been portrayed in two very different performances...
Momdoc's Featured Lenses to Spread the News
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One Laptop Per Child - A Gift that Gives Twice for Christmas
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Give a Laptop, Get a Laptop in this innovative program. One Laptop Per Child is offering a Give One Get One Program from November 12 through December 31. Due to the enormous response, the deadline has been extended according to Dr. Negroponte b...
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Free Hugs Campaign - The Many Benefits of Hug Therapy
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The Free Hugs Campaign began as one person's attempt to make a difference and reach out to others to brighten their lives. Juan Mann describes his inspiration as follows: Standing there in the arrivals terminal, watching other passengers meeting the...
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Idol Gives Back - American Idol Helps Others
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For the second year running, American Idol and fans helped those who are less fortunate in the United States and around the world through Idol Gives Back. The second special night aired Wednesday, April 9th starting at 7:30/6:30 central on your Fox...
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Earth Hour 2008 - Earth Day
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On March 29, 2008 at 8:00 pm millions of people, businesses and governments around the world switched off the lights for one hour during Earth Hour. Did you join them and turn off the lights? Earth Hour 2008 was a global event created to symbolize...
Momdoc's Featured Lenses Green Lenses
Lenses about the Environment or Going Green
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On March 29, 2008 at 8:00 pm millions of people, businesses and governments around the world switched off the lights for one hour during Earth Hour. Did you join them and turn off the lights? Earth Hour 2008 was a global event created to symbolize...
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John Muir
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The United States is forever indebted to John Muir, the "Father of the National Park Service" for helping to preserve this countries greatest treasures, our National Parks. John Muir (1838-1914) was America's most famous and influen...
Momdoc's Featured Children Literacy Lenses
Lenses about Children Literacy
Lenses for sites that support children's literacy.-
First Book - Book Relief - Every Child Deserves a Bedtime Story
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Can you remember the magic of owning your first book? This is the mission of First Book, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to give children the opportunity to read and own their own first new book. First Book provide an ongoing supply of new b...
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Reach Out and Read - Promoting Early Childhood Literacy
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This lens focuses on Reach Out and Read (ROR). Reach Out and Read is a national non-profit organization that promotes early literacy, because growing up healthy means growing up with books. During visits to the pediatrician, children get new books an...
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Click to Give - Make a Difference
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Just by volunteering a few minutes of your time and the click of a mouse, you can support a variety of charitable causes and organizations for free. You can click to donate for hunger, women's health, children's health, literacy, rainforest and anima...
Momdoc's Featured Education Lenses
Lenses for educating children.
Lenses with information about educating children.-
The Moomins - Creations of Author and Illustrator Tove Jansson
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My mother is from Finland, so I grew up reading stories from Moomin Valley about critters called the Moomins and all of their friends. Moomins love nature and all her creatures. They possess a tolerant and open attitude toward life with a very strong...
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Bunny - Oscar Winning Short Film
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I would not have believed that the computer animation studio that produced "Ice Age" would have created a short film that works as an effective resource for educating children and adults about death and dying, but this short film is a valua...
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Doin' the Bone Dance and Other Creative Ways to Learn Bone Anatomy
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Teaching children about bone anatomy can be made a bit easier and a lot more fun for the children by using some songs, dances and available innovative educational tools. The idea for this lens came after watching a recent episode of Hannah Montana the...
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Remember September Mail Art Project
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This Creative, Commemorative Mail Art Project was developed by Gail Ellspermann in 2002 as a way for people to remember those who had died on September 11, 2001. Through the use of art, participants are encouraged to express their feelings and refl...
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We're All Winners
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“We’re All Winners” is an educational fitness activity designed to let young children have fun, learn a bit about being safe in the sun and then participate in a non-racing, solo running activity. The main goal of the event is to cr...
Momdoc's Featured March of Dimes Lenses
Lenses Supporting the March of Dimes Education Programs
Lenses created to support the March of Dimes and provide information about their various campaigns.-
Every Baby has a Story - Video Contest for the March of Dimes
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The March of Dimes is asking NICU Parents and Families to share their NICU stories and experiences by creating and submitting a video for the "Every Baby has a Story" Video Contest. Often time those who have been there and lived through a c...
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Prematurity Awareness Month - Sponsored by the March of Dimes
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As part of a national effort to save babies from premature birth the March of Dimes has designated November as Prematurity Awareness Month. The month of November is dedicated to raising awareness about premature births, while also raising funds for t...
Professordoc's Featured SquidBoo Lenses
Lenses for SquidBoo
Lenses created for Halloween and educating people about skulls and skeletons.-
Dia de los Muertos - Day of the Dead
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Although occurring around the same time of the year as Halloween, Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, celebrated in many Latin American countries, is a very different holiday, with a very different focus. This festival to celebrate the...
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The Original Phantom of the Opera
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Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, the Opera Ghost, is a musical genius, who because of his physical deformity he masks his face. The Phantom lives far beneath the Paris Opera house in the depths of the catacombs, residing in a secret home by an undergr...
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Take a Trip Underground to Visit The Catacombs....and the Dead
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Far beneath the city streets of Paris lies the bone remains of more than 6 million people, in an elaborate labyrinth of passages, tunnels and corridors. It is a place of mystery, of intrigue, of history and of death. One can easily get lost or diso...
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Dem Dancing Skeleton Bones
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Skeletons have been a symbol of death at least since the Middle Ages when they were portrayed as the Grim Reaper. Dancing skeletons are featured as participants in La Danse Macabre* or the dance of death and as such skeletons have become objects of f...
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13 Ways to Cloak Your True Identity for Halloween
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One easy way to create a simple, fun and effective Halloween costume is to start with with a mask, a cloak, a cape or a robe to hide your true identity. Halloween is a time when children and grown-ups alike get to take on a different identity for a...
Professordoc's Featured Walking Lenses
Lenses about Walking
Lenses about the benefits and resources on walking.-
Steptember - Getting You to Move and Eat Better in September
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Take the Steptember Challenge and make two small changes that will have a big influence on your health by moving more and eating less. American on the Move is encouraging everyone to move more and eat healthier during the month of September. The go...
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Nature Therapy - Therapeutic Walking or Hiking - Green Therapy
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John Muir once wrote, In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. Walking in nature can have many therapeutic benefits for the person walking. Taking a walk or a hike to enjoy the scenery, the fresh air and the activity can help in...
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Walk Yourself Healthy - Walking for Health - Health Benefits of Walking
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While walking may be one of the oldest forms of exercise it continues to be one of the best ways to improve your health and well being. Because of it many benefits walking may become one of the most popular prescriptions available in a physician's ar...
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Virtual Walks to Get You Through Your Day - Walking Video Clips
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When you need a break from work, a bit of a respite from home, or need to be re-energized, take a few minutes and click on one of these specially selected YouTube videos to go on a virtual walk. While the virtual walk is not the same as a real walk,...
Professordoc's Featured Lenses on Health and Well Being
Lenses about topics relating to Health and Health Promotion
Lenses about public health, health, wellness and wellbeing topics.-
Music Therapy - A Harmonious Complementary Therapy
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According to the American Music Therapy Association, Music Therapy is an established healthcare profession that uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals of all ages. Music therapy improves the quali...
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The Health Benefits of Altruism - How Giving Back is Good For You
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Being altruistic, or reaching out to help others, not only benefits the person being helped, but practicing altruism also has many benefits for the person doing the helping. Altruism is an unselfish concern for the welfare of others. It is a g...
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Just Say 'No' to Power Cell Energy Balls - A Consumer Health Warning
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As a physician, nutrition instructor and parent, I find several things wrong with the Power Cell Energy Ball product and marketing strategy. This company is promoting a caffeinated, vitamin-fortified gumball as a 'nutritious snack' with all the visua...
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Blooming Tea - Magical Flowering Teas Unfold Before Your Eyes
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Blooming and Flowering Teas are truly a unique experience. You can create a beautiful magical, moment, a moment to savor, simply by brewing tea. The carefully sewn hand-crafted blooming tea petals are put into special glass teapot. Once the hot wate...
LensDoc's List of SquidWho Lenses
Lenses on People
Lenses created for the new SquidWho section, the first people-built who's who. The people included in the Squidwho are listed alphabetically by last name except for Diana, Josh and Oprah who are listed by their first names.- Diana Princess of Wales
- I was one of the thousands of people, who were stunned and in shock 10 years ago by the tragic death of Princess Diana and then a few days later the death of Mother Teresa.
- Josh Groban
- Josh Groban is an remarkable performer with a voice than can easily handle pop and rock music as well as classical. Generally classified as 'adult contemporary' Josh Groban is among a new generation of musicians and performers defining a new genre of music.
- Oprah Winfrey
- Oprah Gail Winfrey is thought to be the most influential woman in the world now. She is also considered to be the most philanthropic African-American of all time and one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the United States.
- Horton Hears a Who
- Horton the Elephant is featured in two Dr. Seuss books, the first "Horton Hatches an Egg" and the second, "Horton Hears a Who." "Horton Hears a Who", the new feature film produced by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox started March
- Bindi Irwin
- The sudden, unexpected death of Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, last September left some pretty big shoes to fill, but daughter Bindi Irwin has stepped in and picked up where her father left off as a passionate wildlife warrior and spunky television personality in her own right.
- Steve Irwin
- Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, was a bigger than life personality. Passionate and enthusiastic about everything that he did and the way that he lived. Perhaps that is why it was so hard for people to believe the news of his unexpected death last year.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD
- Dr. Elisabeth Kubler Ross has the distinction of writing the first best selling book on a topic that no one wanted to discuss. On Death and Dying, written in 1969 is still required reading for many medical, nursing, psychology programs and college death and dying courses.
- Juan Mann (One Man)
- Juan Mann is perhaps better known to millions of YouTube Viewers as the "Free Hugs Guy." He has chosen to use the identity of "one man" and wants remain anonymous in his desire to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives through hugging.
- Freddie Mercury - Queen
- Freddie Mercury, lead singer for the Rock Band Queen, was once quoted as saying that he didn't want to be a rock star, he wanted to be a legend. While alive, Freddie Mercury was known as an entertaining and energetic rock star. Since his death at the fairly young age of 45, he has become a legend.
- Nanny McPhee
- Nanny McPhee is the mysterious, amusing and a bit scary Nanny character created by Emma Thompson from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda. Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay for the film and also stars as Nanny McPhee bringing the character to life.
- John Muir
- The United States is forever indebted to John Muir, the "Father of the National Park Service" for helping to preserve this countries greatest treasures, our National Parks. John Muir (1838-1914) was America's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist.
- The Phantom of The Opera
- The Phantom of the Opera began as a novel written by Gastron Leroux in 1909. In the novel we are introduced to the character Erik, or the Phantom of the Opera, a horribly deformed musical genius also known as the "Opera Ghost."
- Maria Shriver
- Maria Shriver is an award winning journalist, best selling author and serves as the First Lady of California after her husband Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected and then re-elected as Governor of Calfironia.
- Dr. Seuss
- There are probably few children and grown-ups who haven't read at least one of the imaginative works of Theodor Geisel. The children's books of Dr. Seuss, such as the Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who and Green Eggs and Ham have become classics for teaching children how to read with fun.
- Linus Torvalds
- Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer, who now resides in the United States. He is best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel, an alternative operating systems to Microscoft. He has been dubbed "The Father of Linux."
- Andrew Weil, MD
- Dr. Andrew Weil, physician, author, professor and wellness advocate, is changing the way that medicine may be practiced in the future by developing and teaching a blended field of study, Integrative Medicine.
- Willy Wonka
- Willy Wonka is the amazing chocolatier, the confectionery genius, the eternal child and the dreamer of dreams first brought to life by Rohal Dahl in the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He has been portrayed in two very different performances by Gene Wilder in 1971 and by Johnny Depp in 2005.
LensDoc's Featured Squidoo Lens
Lenses on Squid Related Projects
A Lens for one of the Squidoo projects, for all of the minimercials created for the Squidmercial and a collection of Squidoodles for the Holidays.-
Squidmercial's Minimercials
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A Minimercial is simply a mini commercial. In the Squidmercial case, a minimercial is a 10 (or less) second video featuring your favorite Squidoo.com lens. The Minimercial is created as part of the Squidmercial Experiment. The Minimercial is the len...
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Squidoodles for Happythanksmasaween
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The idea for the Squidoodle* lens came from a posting on the Squidu Forum. One post lead to another...one became SquidYule Carols, another, the Squidoodle page. Here is a collection of the Happythanksmasaween* Holiday inspired Squidoodles (a.k.a Squi...
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More Squidoodles
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A collection of more Squidoodles* created for other causes, most importantly for SquidAid and the Squidoo Fire Aid Challenge. Also included are Squidoodles that I have created for the two groups that I manage, the Imagine Peace Group and the Grief &a...
Green Doc's Information
Go Green - Be Green - Live Green - Teach Green - Love Green
Green Doc is the new identity created this spring after developing the Earth Hour lens and wanting to get more information out about Going Green.My Green Doc Blog was launched in April and My Green Sac for Earth Day.
The Squidoo Lenses are in the works.
My Green Doc Blog and My Green Sac
- My Green Doc Blog | Go Green * Be Green * Live Green * Love Green
- A green blog for everyone in the Green Generation because Generation Green knows no age limit. The Green Doc encourages readers to go green, be green, eat green, live green, teach green and love green.
- My Green Sac: Home: Zazzle.com Gallery
- My Green Sac™ is a specially designed collection of Reusable Shopping Sacs or Shopping Bags and Totes created to encourage everyone to "Be Green" when you shop by using reusable shopping bags.
- My Green Sac | Go Green * Be Green * Love Green
- A CafePress store for My Green Sac. With the My Green Sac Reusable Shopping Bags & Accessories showing your concern for the environment is easy.
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- A lens with a growing collection of lensography lenses of different lensmasters.
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- Lensmaster Lensographys a group of all of the lensographies created by various squidoo lensmasters.
Comfortdoc's Websites
Websites Run and Maintained by Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS, FT
- Journey of Hearts: A Healing Place for those Dealing with Grief
- Journey of Hearts website, created in 1997 as the first and only physician based website devoted to educating people about the normal grief response.
- NICU Parent Support Site
- Launched in the Summer of 2007 to provide information, resources and support Parents with babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
- The Violet Heart Collection
- The Violet Heart Collection features products and resources for anyone who has experienced a loss.
Blogdoc's Various Blogs
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- Grief, Loss & Transitions is the blog for the Journey of Hearts website, the first physician-based website to educate people about the normal grief response. The blog provides information and resources for anyone grieving a loss and living through a major life transition.
- Ruminations of an Online Instructor / MD
- This Edublog is to share thoughts, observations, reflections and resources about online education, online teaching, distance education, e-learning and web education from the view of a Physician, Professor, Health Educator and Online Student.
- NICU Parent Support Blog
- Reflections, Ruminations & Resources from respected physician, educator, author and former NICU Parent. The NICU Parent Support Site Blog was created as a way to supply updates, provide information, send inspirational messages and feature NICU resources.
- My Green Doc Blog | Go Green * Be Green * Live Green * Love Green
- A green blog for everyone in the Green Generation because Generation Green knows no age limit. The Green Doc encourages readers to go green, be green, eat green, live green, teach green and love green.
- Nutrition & Wellness - Biology 50
- An edublog created for the Nutrition & Wellness Biology 50 Course taught by Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer.
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