My Brother: A Bit of Nostalgia
When I was born, he told the neighbors, “It’s another girl.” He was eleven and already had three sisters. When …
Category Archives: books
R is for Review
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge A few months ago, a blogging friend, VJ …
Memoir-in-Pieces: Announcing Countdown for Cancer Book
My second book, our experience of my husband’s terminal small cell lung cancer, is on its final trajectory toward completion. …
Caring Lessons Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
Ten years ago this month, the completed copies of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey of Faith and Self arrived in Chicago. …
Grace Notes #16: Grief at Eleven Months
Big news! I finished a first draft of the book I’m writing about our cancer experience. In March, when I …
Immersed in Memories
In preparation for writing my next book, I completed a tedious and heart-tugging task today. My book will be about …
Write Along With Me #5: “As if…”
I’ve never been clever using as if’s or as though’s in my writing. I don’t, for example, easily make comparisons …
Write Along with Me #4: Fresh Descriptions
“I’ll never be as good as some of the authors I’m reading” is a common lament I hear when I …
Caring Lessons Debuts in South Dakota
Thanks to Jason Kurtz for starting South Dakota Writes last spring. SDW has brought together hundreds of writers in South …
OLLI, Apples, and Books
Fall: a new season, a new home, a new town, a new everything. Now what? We spent our first three …
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