“You’re coming up to a small town that has an historical marker,” Esther texted to me as Marv and I drove along I-10 in Texas. We were on our way to Arizona in January of 2017; Esther was grounded in Michigan during her chemo and radiation treatments for esophageal cancer. She did not despair that …
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Thoughts on Character
"I have enough character," I've been known to say when anyone tells me that a trying experience for me "builds character." I've thought a lot about character this last week as I dove into David Brooks' The Road to Character (2015) for a book club discussion. Not a quick read. I could say just slogging …
Z is for Zany
The final entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge At my fiftieth high school reunion some years ago, a grade school classmate, whom I hadn't seen in years, told me she remembered me as being zany. I smiled and hoped it was a compliment, because I didn't know what the word …
Y is for Yellow
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge. A true story I wrote about myself in the early 2000s. I was practicing writing in third person; Anne was me at an earlier age. Yellow worked itself into Anne’s life in an odd sort of way. She wasn’t really aware of the …
X is for Xerox
An Entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge First, to make copies, it was carbon paper between onion skin paper on my old upright Royal typewriter. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Then it was standing by a mimeograph machine and turning the roller round and round. Then it was standing by …
W is for Westminster
An entry for the Blogging A to Z in April challenge In addition to my daughter and her family, two communities saved my life when we moved after fifty years in Chicago, a city of about 3 million, to the much smaller Sioux Falls, a town of under 300,000. Those two are OLLI--Osher Life Learning …
V is for Victory
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge. The first word that came to mind with the letter V was victory. And with victory the words and tune of the song V is for Victory cascaded from my memory. I remember learning this song in Christian School, probably in the lower …
U is for Ubiquitous
An Entry in the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge Once you know the meaning of ubiquitous, it will become a favorite word. In the late 80s, I accompanied one of my older sisters on her road trip from Chicago to Seattle to assume a dean's position at a university. She lived in …
T is for Taxes
An Entry in the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge Photo by Nataliya Vaitkevich on Pexels.com Taxes. I've made my fifth trip to my CPAs office. A record. Last year it was once. The year before, my first year to gather the tax information, once. Taxes. Why the difference? Can't tell you. My …
S is for Saying Farewell to My Nursing Files
I stand here by a wall of metal file cabinets—three in a row, four drawers each—a nursing career of memories nestled in the southwest corner of my study. My life’s work written on hundreds, maybe thousands, of pages hanging neatly in file folders. After twenty-two years in our three-bedroom house in suburban Chicago, I am …
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