When I read that a suggested reading for my recent Write-by-the-Lake workshop with Amy Lou Jenkins was Miller and Paola’s Tell it Slant, I immediately got gut pain. Some years ago, during a writing workshop, the teacher had shown a page of an essay I’d written on a screen and asked the group of about …
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Write Along with Me…
The fun is yet to be! Come with me, in spirit, to the Write-by-the-Lake Writer's Workshop & Retreat at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. I’m getting ready to attend this retreat next week. And oh, what fun it is to prepare. I want to remind you, as I’ve done before, that your words will …
Remembering – The Battle Hymn of the Republic – Memorial Day, 2017
With gratitude for those who served, including my dad and my son, I post this in honor of Memorial Day. http://youtu.be/p5mmFPyDK_8
Happy Nurses Week!
In honor of Nurses Week, I'd like to ask my readers to consider supporting our nurses of tomorrow! I helped start the BSN program at Trinity Christian College in 1983 and am happily helping their alumni group, TANA, to endow a nursing scholarship. If you are so inclined, all of us associated with Trinity would …
Join South Dakota Authors Saturday – 3-25-17
Support many South Dakota authors on Saturday, March 25, from 10-3 at Prairie Hills Covenant Church off Hwy 11. Come for lunch and help out the PHC youth! My Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self will be there, along with a new collection of essays: Starting Over at Seventy-four: From a …
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Trivets with shamrocks
Loved reading this history of the shamrock! Source: Trivets with shamrocks
Lies, Put-downs, and Ivory Soap
I’m a preacher’s daughter. A PK. I was raised in a fishbowl with guidelines on how to behave, including a sense of right and wrong. I was not allowed to swear; I was not even allowed to say gee, gosh, or heck as they were presented as shortened versions of Jesus, God, and heaven. I …
Nostalgia for Nursing
Oh no. That was bad. After being happily retired from nursing for nearly seventeen years, I had a severe attack of nostalgia last week. We were on our way home from AZ to SD and stopped at a niece’s along the way. An RN, she offered me a tour of her hospital where she’s worked …
I Have My Marching Sandals On
I'm thankful for my blogging friend's thoughtful essay. I wish I had her elegance of words to sort out my ambivalent feelings today.
Merry Christmas!
(Westminster Presbyterian Church, Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
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