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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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Ice Cream at Thirty-one Months

February 26, 2021

Meandering through my brain the last few days to discover a suitable topic to chat about on my 31-month anniversary …

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Growing Older: On Turning 79

January 25, 2021

At the start of my 80th year, I agonize most about how much I still don’t know. As an advocate of …

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Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2020

It’s a sunny seven-degree day here in Sioux Falls. I wonder what the temperature was in Bethlehem the day Jesus …

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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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Finding Humor Today

November 13, 2020

As virus numbers soar, I work at finding humor everyday. It’s all around me; I just have to be aware …

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Memoir-in-Pieces: Announcing Countdown for Cancer Book

September 30, 2020

My second book, our experience of my husband’s terminal small cell lung cancer, is on its final trajectory toward completion. …

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Caring Lessons Celebrates Tenth Anniversary

September 25, 2020

Ten years ago this month, the completed copies of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey of Faith and Self arrived in Chicago. …

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The End of Writerly Silence: On a New (to Me) Workshop Model

August 27, 2020

Originally posted on BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog:
By Kailyn McCord I grew up in what I’d call a traditional workshop. Non-genre specific, usually…

Writing Workshops: Helpful?

August 25, 2020

Have you ever had your writing critiqued in a writing workshop? If not, you’d be in for an experience like …

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Grief at Twenty-four Months: A Rummage Sale Made Me Do It

July 25, 2020

On this second anniversary of my husband’s death, I’ve made an unplanned purge of his belongings. Our church’s rummage sale, …

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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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