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Pay the Story Forward
Dear Reader: In one of Barbara Johnson’s Daily Splashes of Joy she tells about a man who was moving to a new town. His friends bought him a young sapling to plant in his new home as a reminder of all...
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All Living Things Thrive Better 1:1
Dear Reader: Thanks to Mother Nature, recently, the Lowcountry is pulling out of the near-drought conditions it was headed for just a week prior… I had bought another water can to help me with my side...
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Life is all About Staying in the Zone… the Auto Zone
Dear Reader: This past week an amazing woman (whose children I taught) had a birthday and friends were leaving wonderful comments on FB to her. All very nice …but what caught my attention was her...
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Stand Aside and Let the Beauty of Life In…
Dear Reader: Just a few years after my initial cancer diagnosis I tuned in to one of Oprah Winfrey’s last shows. A little toddler sitting between his parents – a boy-was stealing everyone’s hearts in...
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If Ferns Could Talk…
Dear Reader: I am so proud of this sword fern – ( Boston Fern) is part of this family. It is huge and still growing-it is in a location where it gets filtered light and in a high humidity climate that...
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Greetings, Salutations, and “Hello”
Dear Reader: I love that my statue of St. Francis greets visitors to my garden! The perfect person to open up his arms to all who enter the sacred beauty of a well-loved sanctuary. When I looked up...
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” Necessity is the Mother of Invention”
Dear Reader: I never cease to marvel at the creative endeavors and newly recognized entrepreneurs who have risen from the pandemic like a Phoenix from the ashes. Many used the loss of jobs to do what...
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Life is all about Connections
Dear Reader: In most schools in the Lowcountry it is count-down week to summer vacation! An oasis of happiness waits on students and teachers! An ending to one of the most challenging years of...
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Giving Life Our All
Dear Reader: I think sometimes people immediately think of travel as a substitute for the word ” adventure ” … and feel like they didn’t accomplish much in life if they didn’t travel and experience...
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Friendship is always Worth the Fight!
Dear Reader: When I sent Libby her birthday card on June 3 -it had a coupon in it -good for a birthday lunch at Oscars and a sleep-over on the B& B side! Yesterday was the day it came together....
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Knowing When You are Already There
Dear Reader: I love this whimsical ” Creation” artwork by Diane Frankenberger – Honey wrote a note on this card and sent it to me. I keep smiling every time I look at it. This Garden of Eden scene is...
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Pick Your Battles in Life
Dear Reader! Last Monday my StoryWorth question asked me what advice I would give my children now for raising theirs. I responded that most verbal advice goes in one ear and out the other when...
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The Perfect Summer State Sandwich of South Carolina-the Simple Tomato Sandwich
Dear Reader: Yesterday I had such a craving for a tomato sandwich I had to jump in my car and head straight to the Coastal Produce stand. Apparently I wasn’t alone in this desire… there was a long...
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Your Summer Story
Dear Reader: Yesterday was Father’s Day and the longest day of the year-the Summer Solstice! For the Lowcountry the predicted wash-out day was delayed, long enough, from the remnants of the tropical...
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Finding the Magic in Every Day
Dear Reader: As I get older I realize just how much magic in life I missed, inadvertently, while stuck in daily survival mode-always rushing through each day to get everyone in the family to the right...
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The Main Thing is to keep the Main Thing the Main Thing
Dear Reader: The older I get the harder it is to stay focused on the one objective I really want to accomplish on any particular day. My focus wants to take every detour that pops up. About the only...
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Learning to Define ” Everything”
Dear Reader: Grandmother Wilson used to tell me that I could be anybody I wanted to be or do anything I wanted to do … but choose wisely. No one can do everything-so start prioritizing because no one...
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A Beautiful God Wink
Dear Reader: My blog actually started with a God Wink in July of 2010 when Honey took me to St. Jude’s Chapel of Hope in Trust , NC. It was this chapel that “spoke” to me about a new direction I was...
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You Might As Well Be Awesome
Dear Reader: Back in the 80’s and 90’s decades ( as a teacher) I thought I would start screaming sometimes if I heard one more student say something like ” Cool man… that’s awesome.” I should have...
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” But Why…?”
Dear Reader: Haven’t we all been around toddlers ( our own or friends and families) who have started asking … ” But why?” If it is our firstborn we initially think the increasingly repeated question...
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