by Kathy Nickerson | Sep 26, 2009 | work
This story would really be better if you could hear it in the delightful accent of the eighty-year old Amish gentleman who told it in our office last week. Try to imagine. He told me this: Last Saturday after our song service, we were standing around, visiting, and we...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 14, 2009 | family, work
Here in the middle of the Missouri cornfields, it is hard for me to imagine a family actually spending the entire summer at their beach house or in their vacation cottage with multiple guest rooms. Yet, some of my blogger friends have experienced such treasure all...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jun 11, 2009 | family, work, writing
Sometimes I forget how spoiled I am. We live in a community blessed by tremendously talented techie guys. I lean on them daily and obviously take them for granted. This week Wendell and I went to a little gathering of friends who are leaders of several similar...
by Kathy Nickerson | May 19, 2009 | work, writing
I didn’t know I was a control freak. This ugly trait surfaced when I finished making summer schedules for the office. The little columns were all lined up neatly on my Google calendar, indicating where shifts overlapped and where we might have a gap. And there...
by Kathy Nickerson | May 15, 2009 | happy endings, work
We have doubled our office staff this summer. That means four people instead of two sharing my front office space in the clinic. It is wonderful in so many ways. For one thing, we can accomplish a lot more with two more people on the nursing staff – –...
