Memoir-in-Pieces: Announcing Countdown for Cancer Book
My second book, our experience of my husband’s terminal small cell lung cancer, is on its final trajectory toward completion. …
Category Archives: memoir
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. …
Writing Workshops: Helpful?
Have you ever had your writing critiqued in a writing workshop? If not, you’d be in for an experience like …
Grief at Twenty-four Months: A Rummage Sale Made Me Do It
On this second anniversary of my husband’s death, I’ve made an unplanned purge of his belongings. Our church’s rummage sale, …
Grief at Twenty-three Months: More Writing
As I was approaching this two-year mark of my husband’s death, I noticed not all is well yet as I’d …
Grief at Twenty-two Months: Write Along with Me
Time heals all wounds is a cliché that’s been around a long time. And disputed as well. Counselor Worth Kilcrease …
Stay at Home Risk – Leaping Out of Your Comfort Zone
“I’m so glad I’ve been a widow this long,” I tell folks when we talk about what it’s like to …
A Ordinary Kitchen Story During Extraordinary Times
It’s four o’ clock on a Wednesday morning here in beautiful South Dakota and I am still awake. Doesn’t that …
Grief at Nineteen Months: Blindside Wipeout and Surprise Mochas
Surprises happen most days in my newish-widow life. Fun things like trying to shovel thick sheets of ice off the …
Grief at Eighteen Months: Contemplation
“Here I sit by a fire pit at a lovely resort in Arizona contemplating…” Three years ago this month I …
