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Category Archives: Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker

So This is How it Goes

August 13, 2017by champslikeus Leave a comment

She doesn’t remember me when I come to visit after she arrived home from the hospital. She calls me to fix her computer. Interestingly, I follow another woman into her […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker

Leaving Sheila

March 30, 2015by champslikeus 2 Comments

Sheila had dementia. Bob was her husband, and I was their social-worker, so when the phone rang and Bob said, “I was tucking Sheila into bed last night and she asked […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker

These Days Will Come

June 19, 2014by champslikeus Leave a comment

It takes nine quarters to do a load of her laundry, the older woman whom I have helped every week for a year-and-a-half.  Today, I’m worried that I might have to […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker, Portfolio

This is Confidence

February 4, 2014by champslikeus 6 Comments

Mount Vernon, WA – When I travel alone, I stay in KOA Campgrounds. With anyone else I camp in the woods. My own degrees of safety hold that alone is […]

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The Tent, the Pit-Bull and a Brown Mini-Van

January 7, 2014by champslikeus Leave a comment

Pacific Northwest, WA — I picked up the phone on a Wednesday morning, finished my coffee and hoped for a walk-in-the-park day.  It was my job to answer the phone […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker

Are you Caucasian?

September 25, 2013by champslikeus 3 Comments

A phone call from Mount Vernon, WA to Denver, CO — “Hey Jill, can I ask you a question?” my neighbor girl asked over the phone.  She was picking the […]

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Order in the Court

July 1, 2013by champslikeus Leave a comment

Altamont, TN – If I was to learn rural Tennessee, I had to understand the people.  My cousin, who sometimes mediates in the courts, offered to let me shadow him for […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker, Tennessee Summer - 2013

Sex, Drugs & Rocking Chairs

March 30, 2013by champslikeus 2 Comments

Denver, CO — What do you say when a 90-year old woman tells you she will give you her bras? They just don’t fit any more.  When you get old, your […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker

The Man Who Was Ahi

December 6, 2012by champslikeus 4 Comments

Denver, CO — I had no idea how the stroke survivor group would turn out.  Every week is different.  One time I asked what was new in the last week […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker

What to Expect When You’re not Expecting

November 8, 2012by champslikeus 4 Comments

Denver, CO — I may have killed my mother, my kombucha mother that is. As I left town, my friend gifted me a honey jar with a little starter juice […]

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