An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge A few months ago, a blogging friend, VJ Knutson from Canada, asked for a copy of my nursing memoir. I was elated. Caring Lessons was published over 10 years ago, and it's rare I get asked for a copy anymore. I so appreciated …
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Q is for Quaker
Did you play the alphabet game on car trips as a child? I vividly remember someone shouting START and then peering out the window to find the letters on signs. We couldn't get them off anything that moved, so signage on cars and trucks were not allowed. Who ever found a letter first would smugly …
P is for Presley, as in Elvis
Last Saturday night, on my twenty-minute drive home from a concert downtown by our South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, my body singing with the sounds of oboe and violin and trumpet, my mind enjoying the quiet of the nearly empty city streets, Elvis, a heart throb from my high school years, soared mournfully into life on …
O is for Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge Finding a word (or words) for the letter O was a no-brainer. From childhood, these attributes of God have lived in my heart. Having this vocabulary to describe God's presence in my life has grounded me and given me comfort all these years. …
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N is for Normal
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge I wince when I think of normal, especially as used in the phrase getting back to normal. In several discussions this past week, I concluded many of us feel rudderless. What do we do now that we're vaccinated and things are starting to …
M is for Mile
An entry for the Blogging A to Z in April Challenge I have a few friends who walk every day. Such a pain. I prefer my couch. But then, yesterday, I shared with one of said friends that our mayor was reinstating his Fitness Challenge of last summer to walk 100 miles in 100 days. …
L is for Lou Mitchell’s Restaurant, by Marianna Crane
Today, I'm reblogging my friend Marianna Crane's blog. Waking up to her post this morning brought back warm and wonderful memories of our time together in Chicago. One day back in the 80’s, Lois, my good friend, and I stood in line waiting to be seated at Lou Mitchell’s restaurant on Jackson Boulevard in Chicago. …
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K is for Karaoke
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge: As a member of a Writing Circle at the Chicago Cultural Center some years ago, I wrote the following one page story using the assigned word of the week--dark. It's based on a diary entry I made on a trip to FL with …
J is for Jinx, Jabber, and Jumble
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge J is such fun letter that I could not decide which word to use. As an aside, I've had a lot of youngish, handsome handyman-type guys in my house since my husband died, and most of their names started with J! I've regaled my …
I is for Idiot
An Entry for the Blogging from A to Z Challenge in April "This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it's always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is. Especially …
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