• About the Author
    • Welcome readers!
    • Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae – Nursing (1958-2000)
    • Resume – Writing (2000-Current)
  • Caring Lessons
    • Media Kit
    • Events
    • Excerpts from Caring Lessons
      • 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
      • Endorsements
      • Nursing Program Recommendation
      • Professional Reviews
      • Readers’ Responses
      • Speaking Recommendations
  • Marv Taking Charge
    • Media Kit
    • Events
  • Stories
    • 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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Chicago Remembers Steve Jobs

October 15, 2011

I saw the wrap-around-the-corner line at the Apple store yesterday on Michigan Avenue. Exciting. Then I heard on the news …

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Trinity Christian College Dedicates The Cynthia Sander Nursing (Sim) Lab

October 11, 2011

On Saturday, October 8, 2011, the Department of Nursing at Trinity Christian College held a dedication ceremony for their new …

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9/11 Memorial – Healing Field – 2011 Cannonsburg Ski Area, West Michigan

September 14, 2011

A somber tribute: thirty-two hundred flags attached to white poles slipped over thirty-two hundred strips of rebar that are placed …

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Labor Day in the Cool, Crisp, Clear Northwest

September 6, 2011

Some time ago, I wrote that you can take a boy off the farm, but you can’t take the farm …

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Triathlon – SWIM – Chicago, 2011

August 28, 2011

In the following slide show, walk along with me to and from the swim portion of Chicago’s Triathlon. It was …

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A Retired Nurse Remembers

July 13, 2011

“Where were you the day that Kennedy died?” my dinner guest asked me recently. I wondered why she wanted to …

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Thornton Quarry – Illinois

June 18, 2011

If you don’t mind waiting 3-4 years to tour the Thornton Quarry, this is an outing for you. When you’re …

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Fire Safety — A Nurse Grandma’s Scare

June 15, 2011

The next time you’re moaning about having to attend a mandatory fire safety program, interrupting your day, at your workplace, …

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Macy’s Flower Show – Chicago, 2011

April 9, 2011

The flower show at Macy’s Chicago is over tomorrow, and, as I was going out for the afternoon, I told …

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Book Signing at Hair Salon

March 16, 2011

Many thanks go to Krystyna Velasco! It was a delight to meet a steady flow of other customers –  28 …

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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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