The title of the article “Writing In Between Worlds,” a suggested reading for my recent Write-by-the-Lake Writer’s Workshop and Retreat, intrigued me as a recent transplant from Chicago to Sioux Falls, from a city of nearly three million to one of 175,000. My body is here, but my heart is still in transit. We did …
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I have her shoes, the new white Skechers she’d packed carefully in her “wear home from the hospital” bag. There’s something not right about this. We did not expect her death. We were ecstatic when we heard her surgery for cancer was successful. We were relieved when she transferred out of ICU, then greatly worried …
Support many South Dakota authors on Saturday, March 25, from 10-3 at Prairie Hills Covenant Church off Hwy 11. Come for lunch and help out the PHC youth! My Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self will be there, along with a new collection of essays: Starting Over at Seventy-four: From a …
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After a 30-day trial of wintering in warm weather, I’m not convinced. I find this humorous because this is something I’ve long wanted to do. When we lived downtown Chicago, leaving didn’t make sense, because we could always get out in the winter: public transportation and an undercity pedway made moving around relatively easy. But …
Here I sit by a fire pit at a lovely resort in AZ thinking about turning seventy-five. What a year it has been. Last year, when I posted Growing Older: On Turning Seventy-four, I pondered what the next year might bring, not anticipating a move from Chicago to Sioux Falls, SD, and for sure not …
As we say goodbye to 2016, I invite you to consider, along with me, how we've met our friends, those special people in our lives who are there for us no matter what... *** “What about your friends?” my six-year-old granddaughter asked last spring when she was visiting us in our Chicago condo overlooking Lake …
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Thanks to Jason Kurtz for starting South Dakota Writes last spring. SDW has brought together hundreds of writers in South Dakota who meet up on Facebook and at in-person venues. They hosted a Winter Author Book Fair in Sioux Falls on Saturday, December 10, 2016. Caring Lessons was there! A very fun thing that happens …
I’ve had it with mudslinging, most of it untrue, and thought it would stop after the election, but it hasn't, so I want to write about being kind. I got the idea this morning when I was sitting in a coffee shop and overheard a conversation. A gal was interviewing for a job that could …
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I never dreamed I’d complain about applesauce. But picking apples and making applesauce have become my husband’s new BIG hobby. It started when he helped his sister pick her apples while visiting in MN a few weeks ago. When we got home, he started on our daughter’s trees. And then the applesauce binge started. After …
Fall: a new season, a new home, a new town, a new everything. Now what? We spent our first three months in Sioux Falls getting settled in our twin home and often feeding our kids and grandkids whose kitchen was being remodeled. We’ve completed those tasks now, and I look out the window of our …
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