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along the way: How Healthy Are Your Feet?
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014. How Healthy Are Your Feet? Maundy Thursday, April 8, 2004. At first, it seemed extraordinary that they would be called by name to leave their boats, their accounting charts, their family homes, and follow this extraordinary man who looked like an ordinary carpenter but said and did such uncommon things. That he would invite them to dinner, be a guest in their homes, allow any unclean, untouchable, unlovable character in town to interrupt their important work just to comfort and h...
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along the way: Easter Prayer 2005
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014. National City Christian Church. O God of life, God of love and laughter…we, your Easter people greet you this morning with glad hearts that dare to shout out boldly, “Alleluia, Christ has Risen! Yes, we are your Easter People, Lord, but we sometimes act as though we are a Palm Sunday people. We watch the triumphal parade go by—we may even participate and shout Hosanna! O God of strength and God of courage, let us truly be your Easter people! Let us be as amazed as the other disci...
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along the way: April 2012
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Saturday, April 14, 2012. The Cats I have Known. I’ve always been a cat person. I like dogs, well enough, but I like the independence of a cat—its playfulness, its curiosity, the way a cat purrs when contented. I find them vastly entertaining. When we first got him, Boris went with us on one of our summer camping trips. We thought he was too little to leave at home. It turns out, he was efficient at catching his own food. We were absolutely horrified when he caught his first chipmunk and star...Boris had...
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along the way: March 2013
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Thursday, March 28, 2013. Continuing Lauri’s Legacy: Advocating for Mental Health Care. I recently attended the funeral of Lauri Hinrichsen: retired nurse, maker of beautiful cards, wife of Jim, mother of JoAnna, grandmother of Jamey and friend of so many. Lauri was a kindred spirit. We were connected through church ties ribbons of friendship, and the fine, fragile, gossamer web known as mental illness. Mental illness is not something one speaks of out loud in polite company. It’s the last sham...I have ...
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OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. Peoria, Illinois. Wrote and edited narratives for the Magnet Recognition Program, American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). (2008 and 2012-2013). Wheaton Franciscan- St. Joseph Campus,. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Edited Magnet documents. (2011-2012). Ottawa, Illinois. Wrote application stories. About how B&B products help other companies solve problems. (2010–2011). OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Heart of Illinois American Society for Training and Development ( HOI-ASTD.
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along the way: June 2010
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Friday, June 18, 2010. Eureka: Not Your Ordinary Community. As published in the Woodford County Journal June 17, 2010. Eureka: Not your ordinary community. Let me introduce you to some remarkable young women—Jean, Rebecca, April and Shalon. But, then again, you may already know them. They all grew up here in Eureka. On Saturday, May 8, I attended Eureka College’s graduation and Don Littlejohn’s memorial service. 8226; Shalon Woolridge graduated with honors from EC. All these young woman—and many yo...
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along the way: October 2010
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Friday, October 8, 2010. Once upon a time…well, actually it was just the other day, I was mulling over the colorful idioms—figures of speech—we sprinkle into our everyday conversations. For instance, when I ride the Maple Lawn bus to town on shopping trips, a man in the front always says “We’re off like a herd of turtles! 8221; as we leave the parking lot. We all chuckle good naturedly, but that led me to questions like, Where do these quaint sayings come from? Why do they endure? She had thrown down the...
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along the way: November 2010
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010. Give thanks with a grateful heart. The following is the devotion I gave at the November meeting of Maple Lawn Home’s Auxiliary. These are snippets from websites that express what the person is thankful for. None of them are mine, but I identify with several of them. I found them by typing, “I am thankful for…” in Google. These are some of the items that popped up. I present them here in honor of Thanksgiving. I am thankful for those who invented cameras (and) photography.
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along the way: Conspicuously Claiming the Story
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Conspicuously Claiming the Story. Wednesday, March 24, 2004. I started going to Sunday School when I was three or four years old, and I loved. It I remember the corner classroom with all its sunny windows, the toys, the big board covered in soft, velvety blue felt where we placed the figures of Jesus and all the people from Bible times when the teacher told her stories. The disciples wanted to send them away, but Jesus said, “no, let them come.” I loved every. 8221; Right along w...
