The theme this year is Art in Bloom. The show runs through April 4. You'll have to see it in entirety to appreciate, as the brochure says, the "eye popping installations, each a tribute to a major movement in art history." View the ten photos in this slide show for a glimpse of the beauty. …
Continue reading Macy’s Flower Show Started Today – Chicago – 2015
I’m so happy about the newly launched Trinity Alumni Nursing Association (TANA). And here's my (long) story why. Take a seat and sip some tea… It's no secret that I've often said I feel like I had three kids—a son, a daughter, and Trinity's nursing program. Like having kids, helping start Trinity's nursing program was …
Continue reading Trinity Christian College Starts Nursing Alumni Association
On a flight recently, I spent some time reading blogging friends who have fibromyalgia. Having FM myself, I always marvel at the resilience with which these gals, with chronic muscle pain and oftentimes foggy brains, valiantly face each challenge. Also, on my flight, I read a piece that said we should be thankful for our …
Proverbs 18:26 Friends come and friends go, but a true friend sticks by you like family. Readers of Caring Lessons know I was desperate to find a friend when I was in my early thirties, someone like me, a nurse and mom who wanted to go back to school. That friend turned out to be …
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To the east, Lake Michigan is nowhere to be found. Stay in and stay warm!
December 27, 2014 Dear Grand-four and Grand-five, You were over to visit this afternoon and I have to jot you a note. You are spending Christmas at Auntie Donna’s and seeing your dad’s family. But today your folks drove down here so we could see you on this trip. I wanted to have you all …
Continue reading A Grandma’s Letter to Her Fourth and Fifth Grandchild
Regal. That’s what folks would say. Like a queen, sitting on her throne. She sits, silently, in the right-hand corner of room 2139E in the nursing home. Sitting as always in her blue satiny upholstered recliner. She rarely reclines anymore, though, because she hasn’t got the strength to pull the lever to lift the footrest. …
Continue reading In Memory of My Mother on Our Mutual Birthday
An unusually solid bank of clouds greeted me this morning. Ominous! I ran to get my camera, and seconds later the sun, which had been trying to rise, managed to emerge above the clouds. Beautiful! And then I had to go out. News warned to stay in. Wind chills up to minus 30. Call it …
Continue reading Sunrise in Chicago at Five Degrees and Cloudy
The Canadian Rockies, from our recent rail trip, possibly the most beautiful place on earth, reminding us of God's majestic creation during this season commemorating the mystery of His birth: Luke 2 (From The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language / Eugene Peterson / 2002.) The Birth of Jesus About that time Caesar Augustus ordered …
Continue reading Riding the Rails – Christmas Greetings of Majesty and Mystery!
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