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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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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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Once a nurse, always a nurse…

December 6, 2019

Thank you, Joost van Beek and team at Nurse Recruiter, for selecting my blog to be among their top nurse …

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Grace Notes #14 – Grief at Six Months

January 25, 2019

Marv passed away six months and fourteen hours ago. I’m feeling it is time for me to move on. To …

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Crossroads Hosts Book Signing of Caring Lessons – Nurses Week, 2018

May 5, 2018

Crossroads, 1220 W. 41st Street in Sioux Falls, will be hosting a book signing of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey …

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God’s Grace #11: Another Hug Tour…

April 14, 2018

We spent a week on the road, traveling southeast to Missouri, Kentucky, and Indiana and visiting several nieces, nephews, and …

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God’s Grace #10: Given “Extra” Time

April 2, 2018

When I was a psychiatric nursing grad student in the 80s, I did a clinical practicum on an oncology unit. …

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Eighth Blogging Anniversary

March 28, 2018

WordPress notified me today that I started this blog eight years ago. I remember the day precisely. I’d just heard …

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God’s Grace #9: A Writing Respite

March 26, 2018

Yesterday, I got excited about writing again while reading an article on the Books page of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. …

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God’s Grace #8: On the Lighter Side of Living with Small Cell Lung Cancer

March 22, 2018

We are having a break now from our relentless focus on the diagnosis of cancer; we are finished with most …

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God’s Grace #6: Farewell Hug Tour

March 12, 2018

At the end of February, Marv asked me to organize a “last hug” tour to family and friends in Grand …

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(For personal contact or to purchase my nursing career memoir, Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey of Faith and Self, you may write me at caringlessons@gmail.com. All proceeds go to the Trinity Alumni Nursing Association at Trinity Christian College.)

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