"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands..." Psa. 19:1 (NIV) "God's glory is on tour in the skies; God-craft on exhibit across the horizon..." Psa. 19:1 (The Message - The Bible in contemporary language) "The spacious heavens tell the glory of the Lord; the skies his work …
Continue reading Dawn on a Chicago Christmas – “The heavens declare your glory…”
To my blog subscribers and other readers, I wish you a blessed Christmas. Some suggestions: 1. Take time to think of what the holiday is really about. 2. Quiet down and make a list of things for which you are thankful. 3. Take out the list during the year when you realize you are in …
Need some good company today? Come along with me and check out the ElderChicks website. This site is for women like me ("older" shall I say?) who delight in our retired lives and want to read about others like us and/or to share our own stories about how, according to the site, we are "living …
I've heard this phrase before when I've been promoting Caring Lessons, but I had another special occasion to hear it last Saturday night. I was sitting with my books at the registration table of a holiday party for nurses. Members and guests of District 20 of the Illinois Nurses Association. In the mid-nineties I was …
Hey Lois! Got your book in the mail yesterday and I can't put it down! I haven't heard your voice in 18 years, but as I read this book I hear it like I'm 20 years old again sitting in your class at TCC. I've missed your wisdom, your stories and your integrity more than …
Continue reading Fun endorsement from a former nursing student!
I'm finished. I can do it. I can write 50,000 words of a first draft of a novel in 30 days. I can write with putting my editor out in the cold where it belongs. I can write even after I've said I have no time to do something as outrageous as committing to writing …
Yes, I'm writing a November Novel this year. Oh, you didn't ask? Well, you should have. Because it's consuming my life, and I want everyone to know it. Sound vain? That's okay. I finally can fully appreciate what a writing friend of mine did the last two November's while I frittered away my November's doing …
"You need a hairdresser?" a friend asked me one wintry day over a cozy lunch when I was complaining that mine had run off to Europe. "I have the best," she said. "My memory is short, so when you get home, e-mail me, and I'll give you her phone number." Now, that "best" hairdresser has …
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Marv and I have had an unexpected detour in our lives. So I ask you, what would you call it if: 1. your husband is scheduled for an elective surgery that he could have chosen not to get and, during the pre-op work-up, something suspicious shows up on the test results that requires follow-up? 2. …
After yet a few more fun book launching events--a read at the Palos Heights Library and a book table at a conference sponsored by the Park Forest Nurses Club, I took a break with my husband for a road trip west. The fall color changes were almost complete, but the rolling hills of newly harvested …
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