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    • Chapter 7 – Finding a Friend
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    • Chapter 12 – Cleaning House
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    • 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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My Brother: A Bit of Nostalgia

May 23, 2022

When I was born, he told the neighbors, “It’s another girl.” He was eleven and already had three sisters. When …

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Cover Reveal of My Cancer Memoir – “Marv Taking Charge”

May 2, 2022

Today, I happily present the cover of my completed book and announce that Marv Taking Charge is scheduled to be …

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Signature Dish

April 11, 2022

I’m having a miniature identity crisis and desperately need the help of a few of you readers. I was invited …

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The Fun of Memoir Writing

February 28, 2022

If you’ve never taken a class on writing about your own life, you are missing out on some fun stuff. …

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Ice Cream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream

January 31, 2022

Remember this little ditty? It was first published in 1927, and I wasn’t around to hear it then. But I’ve …

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Growing Older: On Turning 80

January 17, 2022

“What are you trying to prove?” my friend asked in a text. I had just sent her a photo of …

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Good News for the New Year!

January 3, 2022

Happy New Year! And with that I have a super announcement. My second book, Book Two, has been accepted by …

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Merry Christmas…

December 25, 2021

from my house to your house! All the way from my snowy front yard to my sunny one! Remember the …

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Colors of Thanksgiving – 2005

November 25, 2021

 “Mom, look what I found,” Kathleen said as she pulled a slip of paper from her shiny fuchsia purse. “A …

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Ode to the Hoitenga Sisters

October 25, 2021

We were known as the Hoitenga sisters, four of us born within eight years of each other. If one of …

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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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