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    • Chapter 20 – Sister Mary Holy Water
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    • Chapter 27 — Trusting God
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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 …

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Grief at Eighteen Months: Contemplation

January 28, 2020

“Here I sit by a fire pit at a lovely resort in Arizona contemplating…” Three years ago this month I …

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Grace Notes #15: Grief at Nine Months

April 25, 2019

Ants on the bathroom counters. Kitchen cabinet door hanging loose from its top hinge. Battery dead in the Beetle in …

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Grace Notes #14 – Grief at Six Months

January 25, 2019

Marv passed away six months and fourteen hours ago. I’m feeling it is time for me to move on. To …

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Grace Notes #11: Grief at Five Months

December 29, 2018

This time I didn’t have to lie on the floor; this time I used the chair. The occasion? A purposeful …

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Grace Notes #7 – Out of Control, A Rant

October 31, 2018

I’m very glad the last few days are over. “Everything is out of control,” I bellowed to my daughter over …

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(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.)

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