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    • 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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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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Fibromyalgia is a pain! Literally.

September 25, 2021

So I’ve done it again–eaten too much sugar, gotten myself too busy, forgotten to pace myself. And I’m paying for …

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Missing My Sister Esther

August 25, 2021

“You’re coming up to a small town that has an historical marker,” Esther texted to me as Marv and I …

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Grief at Thirty-six Months: Honey, would you please…

July 25, 2021

Come back for just a day? I want to tell you about— The water softener spraying water over the furnace …

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Thirty-five months.

June 25, 2021

Thoughts on Character

May 25, 2021

“I have enough character,” I’ve been known to say when anyone tells me that a trying experience for me “builds …

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Z is for Zany

April 30, 2021

The final entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge At my fiftieth high school reunion some …

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Y is for Yellow

April 29, 2021

An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge. A true story I wrote about myself in …

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X is for Xerox

April 28, 2021

An Entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge First, to make copies, it was carbon paper …

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