Category: writing
Caring Lessons Debuts in South Dakota
Thanks to Jason Kurtz for starting South Dakota Writes last spring. SDW has brought together hundreds of writers in South Dakota who meet up on Facebook and at in-person venues. They hosted a Winter Author Book Fair in Sioux Falls on Saturday, December 10, 2016. Caring Lessons was there! A very fun thing that happens …
Happy Thanksgiving!
Just found this sweet memory from a few years ago--2011. I still don't cook... Yesterday we went to Michigan for a get-together with my side of the family. For most of my adult life, we went to my brother’s every year. Ever since he passed away six years ago, his son h… Source: Happy Thanksgiving!
Can I Forgive?
The power of words... to hurt. My long-time blogging friend hopes to educate by telling her story. As a woman, I wholeheartedly join her in her mission.
Meeting My Same Name New Friend
Imagine checking your emails and seeing one from yourself. A similar thing happened to me in September of 2015; I opened my blog one morning to find a comment written on a post by "Lois Roelofs." Imagine my surprise. How could that be? I had not written myself. I opened up the comment and read: …
Cartwheels in my Living Room
My daughter reminded me on Facebook that four years ago now I blogged about my husband and I spending Labor Day at Navy Pier in Chicago. She wondered what I would be writing about this Labor Day from our new home in Sioux Falls. Well, it’s this. My life has changed. It’s not been my …
From City Walker to Granny-on-the-go
After six weeks in our new home, I’d say most things are good but some things not. I’ll deal with a few “not’s” today. In my effort to be open to new experiences, I joined my daughter’s fitness center. To my surprise, my husband joined too. Not a problem really, but yesterday we had our …
Writing Essay at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival – 2016
I spent last week at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival taking a class in writing essay, using process pedagogy and taught by Nancy Barry. Look at it this way: the writer explores (writes into) a topic, several iterations, to find out what they really want to write about, and the writer also uses feedback to …
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The Move (7) — Leaving Five Places
Fifty years ago we moved to the Chicago area, and as I’m contemplating moving again next week, I’m skipping through the five places we’ve lived in my mind. It was a hot sultry summer in 1966 when we took up temporary residence in our Aunt Jennie’s basement bedroom on 57th Court in the western suburb …
Write Along with Me 