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    • Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae – Nursing (1958-2000)
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      • Chapter 1 – Sweet Little Hoitie
      • Chapter 2 – A Matter of Attitude
      • Chapter 3 – Shift Work
      • Chapter 4 – Rotten Potatoes
      • Chapter 5 – Running Away
      • Chapter 6 – Time-out
      • Chapter 7 – Finding a Friend
      • Chapter 8 – Diploma Mentality
      • Chapter 9 – Breaking the Mold
      • Chapter 10 – Bluffing It
      • Chapter 11 – Meeting Sadie
      • Chapter 12 – Cleaning House
      • Chapter 13 – Liverwurst
      • Chapter 14 – Oscar Mayer Weiner
      • Chapter 15 – Cogito Ergo Sum
      • Chapter 16 – First Shots
      • Chapter 17 – Nothing Physical
      • Chapter 18 – Fancy Title
      • Chapter 19 – No Surprises, Be Legal
      • Chapter 20 – Sister Mary Holy Water
      • Chapter 21 – Getting Organized
      • Chapter 22 – Sadie Tomczyk
      • Chapter 23 — Going Back
      • Chapter 24 — Things I Tried
      • Chapter 25 — Storms of Illness
      • Chapter 26 — Cancer
      • Chapter 27 — Trusting God
      • Chapter 28 — On My Way
    • Reviews of Caring Lessons
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      • Readers’ Responses
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    • An American at a Russian Bliny Tasting Party
    • Iowa Summer Writing Festival – Personal Essay
    • Thoughts on False vs True Selves on a Snowy Day in Chicago
    • Waters of Bethesda
    • Graduation Water
    • Iowa Summer Writing Festival – Rant
    • Saying Farewell to My Nursing Files
    • Two Nurses’ Karaoke Debut

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In Memory of My Mother on Our Mutual Birthday

January 17, 2015

Regal. That’s what folks would say. Like a queen, sitting on her throne. She sits, silently, in the right-hand corner …

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Headlines Tell the Story

April 17, 2013

Investigators dig up clues burned in bomb wreckage Young lives lost in Boston blasts In the world of acts, the …

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Intriguing Challenge for Biblioracles

March 27, 2013

If you like to read, this challenge will intrigue you: write a list of the last five books you’ve read. Then consider …

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Sunday – A Bittersweet Day of Saying Farewell

January 31, 2012

From the Chicago Tribune yesterday: The Rev. John Buchanan retires from Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago. Sunday was a big …

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Resolutions: Weight, Classics, and Simple Things

January 1, 2012

It’s time to tell you that my “skip sugar” resolution for the month of December paid off. Three pounds lost. …

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2011 Printers Row Lit Fest

June 8, 2011

If you’re a reader and/or a writer, you would love the free, two-day Printers Row Lit Fest, the largest literary …

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Nursing Faculty Shortage

May 31, 2011

I was thrilled yesterday (5/30/11) to find an article titled “Jobs in Health Care on the Rise” in the Business …

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Strategies for Book Promotion – A Novice Begins

August 14, 2010

I’m not famous. I’ve never been on the front page of any newspaper, unless I can count my president’s notes …

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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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