previously published works
Previously Published
**My first blog, Habitual Gratitude, was launched on March 27, 2012. By early 2022, it has over 2800 posts. Now that’s habitual!
**Lead author on three poetry compilations written by my sisters and I:
April . . . in Pieces: Seven Sisters Writing on COVID and Cancer
What Life Has Dished Up: Sisters and Their Musings
My Sister Said . . . Poems about Sistering
Following are essays I have written that have been published elsewhere:
**On Dr. Gayle Sulik’s Pink Ribbon Blues blog:
What Lies Beneath (January 10, 2012)
I Didn’t Know Then What I Know Now (April 26, 2012)
Keep the Race Moving Toward the Cure (July 12, 2012)
Paralyzed or Catalyzed? (October 19, 2012)
**On Nancy’s Point blog by Nancy Stordahl:
October 2012, “The Sum of All My Parts- A Guest Post on Feminism, Breast Cancer Awareness & More”
January 2020, I’m Still Standing by Lisa Valentine – A #MetsMonday Featured Post
**On Grateful Living website:
Spring 2013 The 100th Blessing (A contest stemming from Brother David Steindl-Rast’s book “99 Blessings.” My entry was one of 12 winners.)
Early 2019 “Living Gratefully Creates a Generous Energy” in Stories of Grateful Living
January 2020 A Year of Gratefulness Gatherings
December 2023 Gatherings Spotlight: Rivertown Grateful Gathering
**I wrote a monthly column in our local paper titled “Gratitude Flow” for five years, beginning in late 2012.
**Four op-ed pieces I have written have been published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
“Slow down; you move too fast.” (December 4, 2010)
“To see eye to eye, talk face to face” (April 12, 2011)
“Addiction is a disease, like cancer-let’s treat it as one” (August 7, 2011)
“Keep the race moving toward the cure” (July 12, 2012)
**One essay has appeared in the Des Moines Register:
“The philosophy of shoveling the driveway” (February 6, 2011)