Writing Workshops: Helpful?
Have you ever had your writing critiqued in a writing workshop? If not, you’d be in for an experience like …
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Grace Notes #16: Grief at Eleven Months
Big news! I finished a first draft of the book I’m writing about our cancer experience. In March, when I …
Grace Notes #5 – Outrageous
At book club last week, we finished Joan Chittister’s The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully. Many things in the …
Grace Notes #4: Skating
When Marv had his first cancer, prostate, in 1999, I fell off the rails. As I was telling that story …
Grace Notes #3: Numb
During the prelude yesterday morning in church, when, as is custom there, most people were chatting across pews or visiting …
Grace Notes #2: “You’ll do fine.”
Every time in the last few months that I voiced apprehension about going on alone, Marv would simply say, “You’ll …
Grace Notes #1: Afterward – Trusting God
A Chicago friend sent a photo of this cover from Fourth Presbyterian’s bulletin: I’m in Nouwen’s “trusting” stage. Our Celebration …
God’s Grace #21: Transition
My husband, Marv, took his last breath around four yesterday morning, Wednesday, July 25, 2018. Even though heavily medicated he …
God’s Grace #20: “Finding Rest”
This devotional today from our former church in Chicago is appropriate as our family strives to be present for Marv …
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