Participating in the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge Early on when I started this blog (2010), I often wrote about the importance of telling your story. I said if you don’t, your words will die with you. I still feel that way, only more so. Since I retired from teaching nursing in 2000, …
Category: caring lessons
Brain Burst. Imminent!
Have you ever felt as if your brain would burst from accumulated words? As a writer and blogger, I'm having that problem now. The last time I remember being in this situation was the day I started my Caring Lessons memoir. Sitting in a NC gazebo with my friend Marianna and a cat crossing our …
R is for Review
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge A few months ago, a blogging friend, VJ Knutson from Canada, asked for a copy of my nursing memoir. I was elated. Caring Lessons was published over 10 years ago, and it's rare I get asked for a copy anymore. I so appreciated …
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. I began the writing in 2000, after retiring as professor emerita of nursing from Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, IL. After many revisions, I finished it, finally, around 2008. Then the publishing process took …
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Once a nurse, always a nurse…
Thank you, Joost van Beek and team at Nurse Recruiter, for selecting my blog to be among their top nurse blogs for 2019. This is their second year for examining nursing blogs, and I've made their cut this year for a second time. I appreciate their dedication to this project! This organization groups their top …
Grace Notes #4: Skating
When Marv had his first cancer, prostate, in 1999, I fell off the rails. As I was telling that story to a mutually grieving friend last week, I thought back to what a therapist told me at the time: "Sounds like you're bouncing along the bottom." Here’s the situation as I described it in Caring …
God’s Grace #12: Time with Old Friends
“Be open to God’s work in your lives,” our minister said Sunday. He concluded by saying don’t put God in a box. When we stood in line to shake his hand after church, I said Marv’s continued good health reminds me that God is not in a box. God is working outside of any box …
Eighth Blogging Anniversary
WordPress notified me today that I started this blog eight years ago. I remember the day precisely. I’d just heard a favorite writing teacher, Helen Gallagher, tell our group that if we had a book coming out, we must start a blog at least six months ahead of time to help establish a platform. I’d …
Write Along with Me #3: Writing In Between Worlds
The title of the article “Writing In Between Worlds,” a suggested reading for my recent Write-by-the-Lake Writer’s Workshop and Retreat, intrigued me as a recent transplant from Chicago to Sioux Falls, from a city of nearly three million to one of 175,000. My body is here, but my heart is still in transit. We did …
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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 Dakota who meet up on Facebook and at in-person venues. They hosted a Winter Author Book Fair in Sioux Falls on Saturday, December 10, 2016. Caring Lessons was there! A very fun thing that happens …
Write Along with Me 