Ice Cream at Thirty-one Months
Meandering through my brain the last few days to discover a suitable topic to chat about on my 31-month anniversary …
Category Archives: writing
Growing Older: On Turning 79
At the start of my 80th year, I agonize most about how much I still don’t know. As an advocate of …
Merry Christmas!
It’s a sunny seven-degree day here in Sioux Falls. I wonder what the temperature was in Bethlehem the day Jesus …
Tears of Thanksgiving
They started in my church parking lot. When I turned in, off of 26th Street, an older masked man motioned …
Finding Humor Today
As virus numbers soar, I work at finding humor everyday. It’s all around me; I just have to be aware …
Memoir-in-Pieces: Announcing Countdown for Cancer Book
My second book, our experience of my husband’s terminal small cell lung cancer, is on its final trajectory toward completion. …
Caring Lessons Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
Ten years ago this month, the completed copies of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey of Faith and Self arrived in Chicago. …
The End of Writerly Silence: On a New (to Me) Workshop Model
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?
Have you ever had your writing critiqued in a writing workshop? If not, you’d be in for an experience like …
Grief at Twenty-four Months: A Rummage Sale Made Me Do It
On this second anniversary of my husband’s death, I’ve made an unplanned purge of his belongings. Our church’s rummage sale, …
