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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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    • Two Nurses’ Karaoke Debut
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Category Archives: God

Tears of Thanksgiving

November 25, 2020

They started in my church parking lot. When I turned in, off of 26th Street, an older masked man motioned …

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Writing Workshops: Helpful?

August 25, 2020

Have you ever had your writing critiqued in a writing workshop? If not, you’d be in for an experience like …

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Grief at Twenty-four Months: A Rummage Sale Made Me Do It

July 25, 2020

On this second anniversary of my husband’s death, I’ve made an unplanned purge of his belongings. Our church’s rummage sale, …

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Grief at Twenty-three Months: More Writing

June 25, 2020

As I was approaching this two-year mark of my husband’s death, I noticed not all is well yet as I’d …

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An “Unprecedented” Sunday

May 3, 2020

Unprecedented! When you saw that word, what came to mind? I don’t know about you, but I’m wearying of that …

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Grief at Nineteen Months: Blindside Wipeout and Surprise Mochas

February 25, 2020

Surprises happen most days in my newish-widow life. Fun things like trying to shovel thick sheets of ice off the …

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Grief at Eighteen Months: Contemplation

January 28, 2020

“Here I sit by a fire pit at a lovely resort in Arizona contemplating…” Three years ago this month I …

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Grief at Sixteen Months: Traumatic Flashback

November 27, 2019

“I heard what happened out there,” the male nurse said, standing on my right side as I lay on a …

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Grief at Fifteen Months: How Long Has It Been?

October 20, 2019

I ran into some folks the other day who’d come to pray with Marv two days before his death. I’d …

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Grace Notes #17: Grief at One Year

July 25, 2019

What was there is no longer there: Not his touch, not his words: “I prefer you without clothes” Not the …

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