Lois Roelofs holds a PhD in Nursing Science. After retirement in 2000 as Professor Emeritus of Nursing at Trinity Christian College, she plunged immediately into her longtime interest in writing nonfiction, initially inspired by Anne Lamott and Natalie Goldberg. Continuing her love for learning, she completed the four-year University of Chicago Basic Program of Liberal Education and has completed more than thirty writing workshops. In her first book, she told the story of her forty-year nursing career, Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self (Deep River, 2010). After fifty years of living in Chicago, she now resides in South Dakota near her daughter's family and shares a winter home in Arizona with her son's family; at both places, Lois can enjoy her mochas, the dubious fun of aging, and chats with kids and grandkids. Follow her blog at loisroelofs.com.