An Entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge First, to make copies, it was carbon paper between onion skin paper on my old upright Royal typewriter. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Then it was standing by a mimeograph machine and turning the roller round and round. Then it was standing by …
Category: memoir
W is for Westminster
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 …
V is for Victory
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge. The first word that came to mind with the letter V was victory. And with victory the words and tune of the song V is for Victory cascaded from my memory. I remember learning this song in Christian School, probably in the lower …
T is for Taxes
An Entry in the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge Photo by Nataliya Vaitkevich on Pexels.com Taxes. I've made my fifth trip to my CPAs office. A record. Last year it was once. The year before, my first year to gather the tax information, once. Taxes. Why the difference? Can't tell you. My …
S is for Saying Farewell to My Nursing Files
I stand here by a wall of metal file cabinets—three in a row, four drawers each—a nursing career of memories nestled in the southwest corner of my study. My life’s work written on hundreds, maybe thousands, of pages hanging neatly in file folders. After twenty-two years in our three-bedroom house in suburban Chicago, I am …
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R is for Review
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 …
Q is for Quaker
Did you play the alphabet game on car trips as a child? I vividly remember someone shouting START and then peering out the window to find the letters on signs. We couldn't get them off anything that moved, so signage on cars and trucks were not allowed. Who ever found a letter first would smugly …
P is for Presley, as in Elvis
Last Saturday night, on my twenty-minute drive home from a concert downtown by our South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, my body singing with the sounds of oboe and violin and trumpet, my mind enjoying the quiet of the nearly empty city streets, Elvis, a heart throb from my high school years, soared mournfully into life on …
M is for Mile
An entry for the Blogging A to Z in April Challenge I have a few friends who walk every day. Such a pain. I prefer my couch. But then, yesterday, I shared with one of said friends that our mayor was reinstating his Fitness Challenge of last summer to walk 100 miles in 100 days. …
L is for Lou Mitchell’s Restaurant, by Marianna Crane
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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