Always busy in the garage, he'd be shocked that I've put furniture together! Come back for just a day? I want to tell you about— The water softener spraying water over the furnace room The beetles eating your rose bushes The pipe that burst; the hole in the bedroom wall The dying evergreens I had …
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The final entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge At my fiftieth high school reunion some years ago, a grade school classmate, whom I hadn't seen in years, told me she remembered me as being zany. I smiled and hoped it was a compliment, because I didn't know what the word …
An entry for the Blogging A to Z in April challenge In addition to my daughter and her family, two communities saved my life when we moved after fifty years in Chicago, a city of about 3 million, to the much smaller Sioux Falls, a town of under 300,000. Those two are OLLI--Osher Life Learning …
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 …
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge I wince when I think of normal, especially as used in the phrase getting back to normal. In several discussions this past week, I concluded many of us feel rudderless. What do we do now that we're vaccinated and things are starting to …
Today, I'm reblogging my friend Marianna Crane's blog. Waking up to her post this morning brought back warm and wonderful memories of our time together in Chicago. One day back in the 80’s, Lois, my good friend, and I stood in line waiting to be seated at Lou Mitchell’s restaurant on Jackson Boulevard in Chicago. …
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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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When I turned 72, I used this same "gratitude" blog title. Musing over the past year and a half since Marv died, I can write with the same sentiment today. To catch up, I spent Christmas in Aruba with my daughter and family. You may remember we were there two years ago also, just a …
In preparation for writing my next book, I completed a tedious and heart-tugging task today. My book will be about the "adventure" Marv and I undertook last year with his seven-month process of living with a terminal cancer diagnosis and my life afterward. The starting point for the book with be the blog posts I …
Imagine my surprise last week when my email box showed dozens, then hundreds of notices from WordPress announcing an uptick of activity on my last blog post on my scare with breast cancer. I'm grateful to Cheri Lucas at WordPress for featuring that post under Discover, "a daily selection of the best content published on …
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