Nope, I shouldn’t be surprised, she’s not one to be idle.

I called my mom today and we spoke for a few minutes. I did not want to keep her on the phone too long, as she was driving back from taking an 80 year old patient to a doctor. The patient lives in the northern burbs of Chicago, and the doctor was somewhere in the city of Chicago. My mom lives in Wisconsin, and is in her 70’s. Still works as a visiting nurse, doing all those things nurses are called upon to do, be it bed pans or lifting patients out of their beds.

If you browse her blog, you’ll see that my mom is a nun in the Julian Order. Due to most people’s perceptions of religious orders, I get tons of humor mileage out of this.

“Did I tell you I have a blog now?” she said, happiness spilling from the phone. She has been writing poetry and short prose for years, and has been published to some extent. Now she can reach a huge audience with as much of her immense library of writing as she pleases, without needing to please some literary review board somewhere, or spend scads of dollars in some self-publishing venture.

In other words, she is a prime example of one of the original promises of the web

I’m not really very attuned to poetry, and so I’m a horrible judge of anyone’s work - but I hope you’ll take a look:

Sister Andrew Johns Weblog 2