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A Christmas Vignette to Ponder…
Dear Reader: The most enjoyable part of putting ornaments on the Christmas tree is remembering the person who gave you the ornament and the occasion. This desk came from a student, who returned after...
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Finding Angels Around Town
Dear Reader: A week ago, last Monday, I braved the early morning rain to go to Walgreen and get my flu shot. I had tried to get it earlier but you might remember I came down with a head cold and sinus...
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A Whirlwind of New York City at Christmas in Three Days!
Dear Reader: Little did Brooke and I know Friday when we flew out of Charleston to New York City that by bedtime that night we would have seen Rockefeller Center, the beautiful Christmas”Rock” tree,...
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Peace and Calm in New York City at Christmas
Dear Reader: This was my gift to myself from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. I wanted a memento to remember Christmas in NYC in 2015. I, also, wanted to remember the quiet places that we...
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“Friends are Angels Following You Through Life!”
Dear Reader: Last night the doorbell rang and there was a UPS deliverer with a package….he looked so tired and he admitted that he was ready to get home for supper but he still had several more...
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Christmas in the Garden
Dear Reader: I have come to the realization that tending a garden, in all seasons, imitates life to the fullest. I find myself assessing all the plants and flowers (also the baskets) as I pull dead...
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Christmas and “The Hummingbird Effect”
Dear Reader: I bought this book by Steven Johnson (How we Got to Now) after watching several of his programs on television and finding him fascinating….lots of history and interesting facts that one...
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“The Stockings were hung by the Chimney with Care”…
Dear Reader: It wasn’t Christmas Eve last night but Boo was hard at work on the grandchildren’s stockings. Slowly a tradition has started that the grandchildren get to open their “Boo”...
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From Frosty Tundra to Tropical Thunder Christmas is Coming
Dear Reader: Sunday morning, around 8:00 a.m. I opened up all the window shutters and the front (storm) door to witness the most beautiful frosty morning. It looked like snow had fallen and since I...
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Twelve Christmas Blessings…
Dear Reader: A couple of years ago in the Nov/Dec Saturday Evening Post (2012)…one columnist (Ellen Michaud) created twelve Christmas blessings for the twelve days of Christmas. She used Norman...
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To All the Little Shepherds of the World
Dear Reader: I remember my children almost always got the same part in the Christmas Nativity program each year….they were shepherds. In fact…after a couple of years of this…I just started putting old...
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God Loves Us Too Much to Leave Us Unchanged
Dear Reader: It is hard to believe that Christmas Eve has arrived! Today I will be making last minute food preparations for tonight when we gather over at the house following the 5:00 Christmas Eve...
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Merry Christmas to You!
Dear Reader: I have been excitedly waiting ….to show off “Big Red‘….who has produced three beautiful red blooms…just in time for Christmas! No blooms all spring or summer or early fall….and suddenly...
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Still Waiting…but Not Alone
Dear Reader: Don’t you love this vintage necklace containing various pendant clock styles and parts in the title photograph? Honey gave it to me for Christmas….then Bekah and Ady gave me a watch with...
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In Whom or What Have You Seen God Lately?
Dear Reader: The “children” went in together to get me an art pole for the garden by Stephanie Burgess. She makes a variety of these poles for the home or garden. Mollie had seen these and gotten a...
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Leave the Clutter…It’s Christmas!
Dear Reader: I hope for you that your memories of opening up Santa and other presents are ones of complete chaos…that you remember opening and opening and then there came another slew of gifts from...
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A Chance At a New Beginning
Dear Reader: I think when it finally dawned on me that all kind of “endings” we experience, while going through life, are really opportunities paving the way for “new beginnings” …my perspective on...
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The Joy of Creating
Dear Reader: From the devotional Finding Peace at Christmas (RBC Ministries) comes the true story of Simon, an immigrant from the Netherlands to the United States. His wife, Kay, and all three...
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Changing Homes by Changing Hearts for the New Year
Dear Reader: By the time you read this short blog today…we will almost be living in a new year – 2016! I wish for you, certainly, a Happy New Year but more than that I wish for you a different...
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“Look, I’m Making All Things New”
Dear Reader: It’s here, the first day of January, the first day of the new year-2016! Isn’t there such a clean feeling about starting over again with a new year in wait? It’s like smelling a recently...
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