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    • Chapter 1 – Sweet Little Hoitie
    • Chapter 2 – A Matter of Attitude
    • Chapter 3 – Shift Work
    • 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
    • Chapter 23 — Going Back
    • Chapter 24 — Things I Tried
    • Chapter 25 — Storms of Illness
    • Chapter 26 — Cancer
    • Chapter 27 — Trusting God
    • Chapter 28 — On My Way
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    • Waters of Bethesda
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    • Iowa Summer Writing Festival – Rant
    • Saying Farewell to My Nursing Files
    • Two Nurses’ Karaoke Debut
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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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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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Gratitude Party on Turning Seventy-Eight

January 17, 2020

When I turned 72, I used this same “gratitude” blog title. Musing over the past year and a half since …

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Immersed in Memories

March 19, 2019

In preparation for writing my next book, I completed a tedious and heart-tugging task today. My book will be about …

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Thank you, WordPress Editors and WordPress Friends!

February 24, 2019

Imagine my surprise last week when my email box showed dozens, then hundreds of notices from WordPress announcing an uptick …

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Grace Notes #7 – Out of Control, A Rant

October 31, 2018

I’m very glad the last few days are over. “Everything is out of control,” I bellowed to my daughter over …

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Grace Notes #6 – Grief at Three Months

October 24, 2018

I’m a grief group dropout, attending three but dropping out of two. There is no one right way to grieve. …

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Grace Notes #4: Skating

September 16, 2018

When Marv had his first cancer, prostate, in 1999, I fell off the rails. As I was telling that story …

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Grace Notes #3: Numb

September 3, 2018

During the prelude yesterday morning in church, when, as is custom there, most people were chatting across pews or visiting …

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Grace Notes #2: “You’ll do fine.”

August 22, 2018

Every time in the last few months that I voiced apprehension about going on alone, Marv would simply say, “You’ll …

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