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    • Chapter 6 – Time-out
    • Chapter 7 – Finding a Friend
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    • Chapter 15 – Cogito Ergo Sum
    • Chapter 16 – First Shots
    • Chapter 17 – Nothing Physical
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    • Chapter 19 – No Surprises, Be Legal
    • Chapter 20 – Sister Mary Holy Water
    • Chapter 21 – Getting Organized
    • Chapter 22 – Sadie Tomczyk
    • Chapter 23 — Going Back
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    • Chapter 25 — Storms of Illness
    • Chapter 26 — Cancer
    • Chapter 27 — Trusting God
    • Chapter 28 — On My Way
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L is for Lou Mitchell’s Restaurant, by Marianna Crane

April 14, 2021

Today, I’m reblogging my friend Marianna Crane’s blog. Waking up to her post this morning brought back warm and wonderful …

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F is for Marv’s Functional Furniture

April 7, 2021

Today, I’m honoring my late husband’s hobby of making things. He made almost every end table, bookcase, and wall hanging …

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C is for Chicago

April 3, 2021

When I missed my connection and stayed overnight at O’Hare a few nights ago, all I could see of Chicago …

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Caring Lessons Celebrates Tenth Anniversary

September 25, 2020

Ten years ago this month, the completed copies of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey of Faith and Self arrived in Chicago. …

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Buses, Pickpockets, and Crowbars

August 26, 2019

My trip from the Iowa Summer Writing Festival in Iowa City coasted along from the Iowa hotel, to the airport …

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Grace Notes #16: Grief at Eleven Months

June 26, 2019

Big news! I finished a first draft of the book I’m writing about our cancer experience. In March, when I …

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Grace Notes #14 – Grief at Six Months

January 25, 2019

Marv passed away six months and fourteen hours ago. I’m feeling it is time for me to move on. To …

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Grace Notes #8 – Marv’s TANA Pledge: An End of Life Vision

November 11, 2018

Last week, when the “foreverness” of my loss threatened to plunk me down, I received an uplifting reminder of Marv’s …

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Grace Notes #5 – Outrageous

October 1, 2018

At book club last week, we finished Joan Chittister’s The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully. Many things in the …

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Grace Notes #1: Afterward – Trusting God

August 7, 2018

A Chicago friend sent a photo of this cover from Fourth Presbyterian’s bulletin: I’m in Nouwen’s “trusting” stage. Our Celebration …

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