Open To Possibilities: Table of Contents
Start here, to read Mom's story
We often see our parents through the lens of their roles in our lives— caregivers, disciplinarians, cheerleaders. Perhaps they are our role models or mentors, but who were they before they became these things to us?
Trish is my mom, and this is her story, as told to me in a series of interviews in 2024.
Trish Lewis was 17 years old and desperate to escape a mind-numbing administrative job at a factory in Liverpool in the 1950’s. She made the impulsive decision to join a friend to interview for nurse’s aide training at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. That decision changed the trajectory of her life and launched her into an interesting and rewarding career as a nurse.
Table of Contents
Chapter 3 - The High School Years
Chapter 5 - Preliminary Training School
Chapter 6 - First Year Nurses’ Training
Chapter 7 - Finding Her Stride
Chapter 8 - General Nurses’ Training
Chapter 9 - Gaining Experience
Chapter 10 - Arriving in Canada
Chapter 12 - Prepared for Anything
Chapter 13 - Salmon Feasts and Cold Water
Chapter 14 - Becoming a Registered Nurse in Canada
Chapter 15 - Returning to Liverpool
Chapter 16 - A Fresh Start in Canada
Chapter 17 - Melting Snow, and Other Work-Arounds
Chapter 19 - A Garden, a Visitor, and a Few Tense Flights
Chapter 20 - Puppies and Proposals
We hope you have enjoyed reading Trish’s story!
The experience of working with my parents to write their stories has been more rewarding than I ever imagined when we started this undertaking in the spring of 2024.
If you would like to read Dad’s story, you can find it here:
Learning to Fly: Table of Contents
We often see our parents through the lens of their roles in our lives— caregivers, disciplinarians, cheerleaders. Perhaps they are our role models or mentors, but who were they before they became these things to us?
If you want to see whether or not the apple fell far from the tree, you can listen to the first chapter of my memoir “Resilience in the Rubble: A True Tale of Aid and Survival in Kashmir” here:
Chapter 1 - Islamabad
I’m delighted to share that the audiobook version of “Resilience in the Rubble: A True Tale of Aid and Survival in Kashmir” is now up on all the main audiobook platforms!
Stayed tuned for what’s coming next in this project!