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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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    • Readers’ Responses
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  • Stories
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    • Iowa Summer Writing Festival – Personal Essay
    • Thoughts on False vs True Selves on a Snowy Day in Chicago
    • Waters of Bethesda
    • Graduation Water
    • Iowa Summer Writing Festival – Rant
    • Saying Farewell to My Nursing Files
    • Two Nurses’ Karaoke Debut
  • About me
    • Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae – Nursing (1958-2000)
    • Resume – Writing (2000-Current)

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K is for Karaoke

April 13, 2021

An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge: As a member of a Writing Circle at …

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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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Grief at Twenty-one Months: A Fun Memory from a Long Marriage

April 25, 2020

For the past few weeks, I’ve been sorting, thinning, and throwing away files. Dozens of them. And reminiscing. Yesterday, among …

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A Ordinary Kitchen Story During Extraordinary Times

March 25, 2020

It’s four o’ clock on a Wednesday morning here in beautiful South Dakota and I am still awake. Doesn’t that …

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“A NEW FRIEND”

March 20, 2020

On my recent trip to New Zealand, I was able to meet Judith Baxter, a long-time blogging friend. The ability …

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Gratitude Party on Turning Seventy-Eight

January 17, 2020

When I turned 72, I used this same “gratitude” blog title. Musing over the past year and a half since …

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Buses, Pickpockets, and Crowbars

August 26, 2019

My trip from the Iowa Summer Writing Festival in Iowa City coasted along from the Iowa hotel, to the airport …

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Immersed in Memories

March 19, 2019

In preparation for writing my next book, I completed a tedious and heart-tugging task today. My book will be about …

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Grace Notes #10: Trip/Bethlehem

December 27, 2018

“Ladies and gentlemen, put your cameras away,” our guide yelled into her microphone on the tour bus, followed by a …

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Grace Notes #9: Trip to Israel and Jordan

December 22, 2018

Six weeks after Marv’s death, an unsolicited email arrived from Road Scholar announcing a trip to Israel and Jordan leaving …

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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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