• Events
  • Excerpts from Caring Lessons
    • Chapter 1 – Sweet Little Hoitie
    • 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
  • H is for Hair
  • Media Kit
  • Reviews of Caring Lessons
    • Endorsements
    • Nursing Program Recommendation
    • Professional Reviews
    • Readers’ Responses
    • Speaking Recommendations
  • Stories
    • An American at a Russian Bliny Tasting Party
    • Iowa Summer Writing Festival – Personal Essay
    • Thoughts on False vs True Selves on a Snowy Day in Chicago
    • Waters of Bethesda
    • Graduation Water
    • Iowa Summer Writing Festival – Rant
    • Saying Farewell to My Nursing Files
    • Two Nurses’ Karaoke Debut
  • About me
    • Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae – Nursing (1958-2000)
    • Resume – Writing (2000-Current)

Write Along with Me

~ Blogging as a Retired Nurse

Write Along with Me

Previous articles

C is for Chicago

April 3, 2021

When I missed my connection and stayed overnight at O’Hare a few nights ago, all I could see of Chicago …

Continue reading →

B is for Birthday

April 2, 2021

Marv got an invitation to a birthday party today. It came in an email and the sender expressed regrets that …

Continue reading →

A is for Adjusting

April 1, 2021

This is the first in a series of posts I’ll write in the Blogging from A to Z in April …

Continue reading →

Blogging from A to Z in April

March 30, 2021

Last year I stumbled on a delightful Australian blogger who was participating in the A to Z April blogging challenge. …

Continue reading →

Locked Out

March 25, 2021

As the garage door boomed shut, I jumped out of the way. I’d programmed new pin numbers into the door …

Continue reading →

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 …

Continue reading →

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 …

Continue reading →

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 …

Continue reading →

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 …

Continue reading →

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 …

Continue reading →

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Search keywords here.

Choose your language here.

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,021 other followers

Blogroll

  • Order "Caring Lessons" from Amazon
  • Trinity Christian College
  • YouTube Caring Lessons Radio Interview

My Favorite Blogs

  • AJN Off the Charts
  • ElderChicks
  • National Alliance on Mental Illness
  • Nursing Stories
  • Women & Fibromyalgia: Living with an Invisible Dis-ease

WELCOME…

I’d rather meet you over a mocha, but the next best thing is meeting you here in my study, overlooking rolling stretches of bright green grass and periodic splotches of dark splendid evergreens, in our new home in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lois Roelofs

(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.)

RSS LINKS

  • RSS - Posts
  • RSS - Comments

Caring Lessons at Printers Row, Chicago

Top Posts

  • M is for Mile
  • L is for Lou Mitchell's Restaurant, by Marianna Crane
  • D is for Dimwitted
  • E is for Emergency

Readers Around the World

Blogging A to Z April Challenge 2021

Category Cloud

aging books caring lessons chicago faith friends God Health memoir nurse retirement RN Sioux Falls travel writing

Blog Stats

  • 65,619 visitors

Featured June 29, 2017

Write a November Novel – 1667 Words a Day!

Permission, please!

Except where indicated, all content (writings and photos) on this blog are my creation and may not be reproduced in any form without my express permission. Thanks!

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,021 other followers

Website Built with WordPress.com.

Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×