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Easter-When Love Became ” Real”
Dear Reader: Happy Easter to everyone! My family is all home today and we are gathering together to celebrate Easter … the day the world really did turn upside down and love was elevated to a height...
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The ” Yolk’s” on Me…
Dear Reader: Every holiday usually has one memory stand out at a family gathering and the Easter of 2022 will always be remembered as the ” Extreme Egg Toss” game that admittedly I ordered and brought...
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Humor: The Bridge Between Divinity and Humanity
Dear Reader: I wanted to take a moment today to thank all of you for your funny and appreciative comments on how yesterday’s post ( with the talking chicken egg in my car) made your day… made your...
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When God, the Waymaker, becomes God, the Memorymaker
Dear Reader: In Voskamp’s latest book …she looks on God as a ” way maker “… the One we go to when we find ourselves caught between the proverbial ” rock and hard place.” It is then that God finds the...
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A New Take on ” The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”… Indomitable Faith
Dear Reader: Most of us grew up reading or hearing a parent or teacher read us the story of two mice cousins who learn how different life can be… depending on the location of our childhood and later...
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The Sound and Silence of Kindness
Dear Reader: Don’t light and airy musical notes make us feel better… and especially Christmas tunes that revive happy memories? I mentioned earlier this week that I have been cleaning out closets and...
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Sharing Thankful Thoughts on a Beautiful Spring Day
Dear Reader: Pause. Write. Give Thanks. Yesterday Mollie came over for a visit in the ” Ville” to catch up, have lunch and run some errands. We compared raising children generationally… and in mutual...
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Hints of Summer and Stories of Spirited Smiles
Dear Reader: When I arrived home from Mt Pleasant yesterday ( after watching Rutledge and Lachlan play their last game of the season -Lacrosse) I happened to look up and saw Honeysuckle bursting out...
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The Last Hurrah… White-Out
Dear Reader: As I was dusting off my old Dell Desktop computer over the weekend … I once again marveled at how long it has lasted… ” Old Faithful.” It was my first home computer… the ” basic vista.”...
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Have You Ever Wanted to Hug a Place?
Dear Reader: No… I am not doing an advertisement for Chicken Salad Chick. As I was running errands yesterday… I just happened to be in the vicinity when my stomach started growling and I pulled in to...
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One Life… Many Names
Dear Reader: Today Eva Cate is participating in the Fifth Grade Wax Museum as… Susan B Anthony… suffragette. Mandy and I met yesterday so I could get the hat to her to complete her costume…such is...
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Redefining Greatness
Dear Reader: I got in late last night from Mt Pleasant so this post won’t be pontifical…but hopefully a thin slice of pensive … something I thought about while driving home yesterday. I think...
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Why ” Not Being Fine” is Perfectly Fine
Dear Reader: Don’t you just love this card? (Etsy.com) It gets right to the heart of the matter… hiding our true human feelings under layers of societal politeness. We are all afraid to appear...
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The Little Moments of True Meaning along our Life’s Paths
Dear Reader: Don’t we all wish that when God gave out assignments for each of our unique paths through life…ours looked like Monet’s garden path? Since I didn’t get that lucky… I think I have been...
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Share Everything
Dear Reader: Can you believe that is has been 34 years since Robert Fulghum wrote ” All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten.” It was first published in 1986. And is still going strong...
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Discovering Happiness in Our Daily Lives
Dear Reader: In 1926 a young English woman , Joanna Field, began to feel something was missing from her life. She was unable to feel completely whole and happy because she had never taken the time to...
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New Month… New Beginnings… New Mindset… New Focus
Dear Reader: As a teacher I remember feeling overwhelmed in May and looking forward to a day in the future when I could enjoy the beauty of it without running the boys to baseball practice, dance...
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At the Heart of it All…
… And the love of my life Dear Reader: Unequivocally a town can’t be ” charming ” unless it’s people are. Today God rewarded me with the opportunity to help someone who really needed it and to prove...
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” Oh Deer”…
Dear Reader: I believe this is supposed to be a Christmas ornament, but I for one, wouldn’t want the reminder of the damage the deer have done to my hibiscus this summer on my Christmas tree… it has...
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The Best Trade-Offs of Aging… are Inside… Not Out…
Dear Reader: I remember feeling like ” my candle was burning at both ends” constantly as a single mother… that I was meeting myself coming and going. And I kept wondering if there ever would come a...
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