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    • Chapter 2 – A Matter of Attitude
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    • Chapter 4 – Rotten Potatoes
    • Chapter 5 – Running Away
    • Chapter 6 – Time-out
    • Chapter 7 – Finding a Friend
    • Chapter 8 – Diploma Mentality
    • Chapter 9 – Breaking the Mold
    • Chapter 10 – Bluffing It
    • Chapter 11 – Meeting Sadie
    • Chapter 12 – Cleaning House
    • Chapter 13 – Liverwurst
    • Chapter 14 – Oscar Mayer Weiner
    • Chapter 15 – Cogito Ergo Sum
    • Chapter 16 – First Shots
    • Chapter 17 – Nothing Physical
    • Chapter 18 – Fancy Title
    • Chapter 19 – No Surprises, Be Legal
    • Chapter 20 – Sister Mary Holy Water
    • Chapter 21 – Getting Organized
    • Chapter 22 – Sadie Tomczyk
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    • Chapter 28 — On My Way
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Lois Roelofs

~ from teaching nursing to writing memoir (in Chicago), author of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self

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Chicago River Walk – Labor Day Weekend – 2012

September 2, 2012

During the aftermath of Isaac in Chicago, a haze of humidity and heat, my husband and I took a walk …

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Chicago – Gold Coast Art Fair – 2012

June 30, 2012

Today I’m thinking of my acronym for the names of streets north of the Chicago River that cross Michigan Avenue. …

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Easter – Up from the Grave He Arose!

April 8, 2012

A tranquil place to contemplate the meaning of Easter is the famed Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. Opened in 1860, it …

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Former First Lady of Illinois – Maggie Daley – 1943-2011

November 25, 2011

Our loved and respected former First Lady of Illinois Maggie Daley passed away yesterday from complications related to metastatic breast …

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Black Friday at State/Randolph in Chicago

November 25, 2011

Fresh Shrimp / Milk Crate Picnic

November 17, 2011

Caring Lessons Now (CLN) #2 In sixty-two days, I’ll be seventy. No longer do my peers talk about babies, weddings, …

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Chicago Remembers Steve Jobs

October 15, 2011

I saw the wrap-around-the-corner line at the Apple store yesterday on Michigan Avenue. Exciting. Then I heard on the news …

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Trinity Christian College Dedicates The Cynthia Sander Nursing (Sim) Lab

October 11, 2011

On Saturday, October 8, 2011, the Department of Nursing at Trinity Christian College held a dedication ceremony for their new …

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9/11 Memorial – Healing Field – 2011 Cannonsburg Ski Area, West Michigan

September 14, 2011

A somber tribute: thirty-two hundred flags attached to white poles slipped over thirty-two hundred strips of rebar that are placed …

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Labor Day in the Cool, Crisp, Clear Northwest

September 6, 2011

Some time ago, I wrote that you can take a boy off the farm, but you can’t take the farm …

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