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Not Getting Distracted from Daily Distractions
Dear Reader: We all occasionally get ‘down in the dumps’ and during these periods we have a tendency to think that everything is just the “same old, same old.” Actually depression is just a period of...
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Caring Takes Us Full Circle
Dear Reader: The old joke, with retired teachers, used to be “Always ask who the cook is that night at a restaurant, or the name of your server.” If you recognize the name or face of a disgruntled...
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Cracks in Our Faith
Dear Reader: The most popular word to come out of Jakie’s mouth these days is the word: “MINE!” Sunday Jakie will be 22 months old and in child development terminology… that must mean “Mine, Too,...
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“Save My Place”
Dear Reader: I just finished a wonderful old-fashioned style romance (Save My Place) which spoke, on many levels, to me since the backdrop and timing of the story matched my own personal...
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Take Time to Tune Out…
Dear Reader: We know the world is changing when we sit in a waiting room…any waiting room….and watch the vast majority of the other “waiters” either reading or sending messages on their IPhone or (in...
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“Scatter Joy”…
Dear Reader: This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson has always been one of my favorites. And then it came to me recently that it would make a beautiful epitaph. (He/she) scattered joy. I can think of no...
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The “Fruits” of My Labor…I Never Saw Coming
Dear Reader: The benefits and blessings I have gotten… grown from my garden… have more than compensated for the all the labor involved…and it is a labor of love. It is also a labor of intensity,...
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A Visual “Independence Day”
Dear Reader: Yesterday I flunked my glare test quite miserably. I saw two sets of lights and apparently there were some letters in a box between the lights…all I saw was a black box. Not good. but my...
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Feeling Lost? Feeling Forgotten? Color!
Dear Reader: A few days ago when I had a picture of a box of crayons (for that day’s blog title photo) I heard back from so many of you that you could almost smell that yummy wax smell of new crayons...
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Those Cool, Cool “Living” Waters…And a Cookie!
Dear Reader: If you have ever experienced car trouble on a major highway, especially this summer, and had either a highway patrolman or a good “Samaritan” stop to assist you… and then offer you a...
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Blessings on the Stewards of God’s Creation
Dear Reader: I remember in summer Bible School one year (when I was around seven or eight) being asked to bring in a line of scripture….one for each of the five days of Bible School… that started with...
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“Walk Away”…”Walk Off”
Dear Reader: What a busy last couple of days I have spent but all wonderful! I left Friday morning to go to Eva Cate’s dance camp performance and stayed on to keep Eva Cate and Jakie Friday night and...
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Renovating Homes and Re-Inventing Ourselves
Dear Reader: In a few weeks Walsh, Mollie, and the boys will move into the B&B side to live while their home is being renovated. I knew when I started renovating (myself) the other side that it...
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“Are We Fun Any More?”
Dear Reader: Sunday night I was watching a re-run episode of Madame Secretary (love that show!) and remembered it was one of my favorites. In this episode Alison, the younger daughter, is looking at...
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Band Practices, Gnawed Pine Cones, Needles Galore….Fall Can’t be Far Behind
Dear Reader: Now I know it is August and school opens again…just around the corner. Why? Mother Nature has dropped lots and lots of “hints” in the yard. The pine tree droppings sneak in on me every...
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“Anecdotes of a Southern Belle”
Dear Reader: You might remember about a week ago I told you about a little novel (Save My Place) I had just finished that I enjoyed very much – written by a southern author with a very southern name –...
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Living a “Charmed” Life
Dear Reader: I wish I knew why I can’t keep a charm bracelet “growing” by adding more charms or for that information…why I can’t stop losing charm bracelets from the past. I got one for high school...
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“What do you do with an Idea?”
Dear Reader: Thursday while Mandy ran into Old Navy at Town Centre in Mount Pleasant (to look for a skirt) I told her I would take Eva Cate into Barnes and Noble for light refreshments. I let her...
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“It is What it is”….or is it?
Dear Reader: Haven’t we all heard the expression, “It is what it is” from others and even perhaps, occasionally, coming from our own lips? It is usually accompanied with a shrug of resignation. This...
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Geriatric Gardening
Dear Reader: Yesterday morning I woke up fairly early and half-asleep wandered out on the deck to look over my garden. (I had watered the night before and I was trying to determine if I needed to...
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