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“Deck” Our Lives With Happy Memories…Fa La la La La
Dear Reader: What a beautiful day yesterday was…definitely a “favorite” day for many reasons which I will now share with you. I get to finally reveal a “top secret” that I have kept to myself for the...
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Our Hungry Hearts…
Dear Reader: Have you ever been hungry for something to eat but for the life of you…can’t figure out what it is? It doesn’t happen too often for me (since I love eating everything) but when it does...
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“UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, CELEBRATE EVERYTHING!”
Dear Reader: What if? What if we all went to our mailbox today and discovered a large envelope…typical of a large sized wedding invitation …waiting patiently inside the dark box for us to pull out and...
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A Favorite Memorable Story
Dear Reader: Don’t you remember having a favorite story that you wanted read to you every night when you were little and then later a favorite book that you read and re-read? As a little girl, mine...
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It Comes With a “Lifetime Guarantee”
Dear Reader: When you think about it don’t we all come with a “lifetime guarantee?” We breathing human beings (defined as “alive”) are given the opportunity to live each moment of our life… 100%! The...
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“When Having More Leaves You Empty”
Dear Reader: I remember dreading Wednesdays when I taught school because, as all teachers know (and can commiserate with) Wednesdays were… and are… after school teacher meeting days. And depending on...
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Embrace Your Path
Dear Reader: * The computer gremlins hit again last night…it had been a full day of family and I loved every minute of it. I spent the night with Walsh and Mollie …and of course, Rutledge… so I could...
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“Writing is Thinking Through My Fingers”
Dear Reader: Isaac Asime once wrote, “Writing to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.” The more I have thought about that observation, the more I like it. Writing is letting our thoughts fall...
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Be More By Doing Less
Dear Reader: Aren’t people like colored pencils….there are the “jumbo” ones, the medium sized ones, and the skinny pencils. Then there are the colors of course…today with many mixed variations, not...
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“It’s Not for Everyone, It’s for Anyone!”
Dear Reader: Lately certain phrases and conversations (I have “accidentally” tuned in on) have stuck with me. I go to bed and the phrase just won’t leave my mind…it then occurs to me that there is a...
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When Dreams and Reality Merge
Dear Reader: I found my dream home yesterday…the one I always thought would be mine in my childhood, adolescence, early, middle, and “mature” adulthood…the home I have spent countless nights dreaming...
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The Magic of Stars…As Seen in Our Eyes…A Lifetime Gift!
Dear Reader: For Eva Cate…”Twinkle twinkle Little Star” has always been her favorite song since she first repeated the words over and over as she was learning to speak. When I looked up the history of...
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The Giddy Gift of Grace
Dear Reader: A thought hit me the other day…another paradox…all my struggles in life, including lately “little c,” pave the way for the gift of joy. My life is pretty perfect…at least as perfect as we...
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“Scratching” for Understanding….
Dear Reader: Poor Brooke…About a week ago she went to clean out weeds from one of her gardens and got infested with a whole community of redbugs! (I mean they must have called in Grandma, Grandpa and...
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A “Sign In ” Day and a Challenge
Dear Reader: Yesterday morning I had an appointment with Dr. Little to go over some lab work and the results of a month of pricking my finger to check my blood glucose levels. I had my chart filled...
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Abandoned Houses with a Story to Tell
Dear Reader: What an adventure Anne and I had yesterday! It was Holmes and Watson tracking down the mystery of the original “dream home” from the imaginative creation of artist Norma Ballentine! Norma...
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Just Sitting in the Sun…
Dear Reader: Wasn’t yesterday wonderful….sun…glorious sun! And it just wasn’t the sun…it was also the blue skies. God is such a wonderful Creator and Artist…He understood color “language” long before...
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Better To Be Broken than Broken Off…
Dear Reader: A couple of years ago the Ya’s did a tour of Edisto and ended up in the Presbyterian church cemetery on the island. Our tour guide, Don Pinger, pointed to two different gravesites which...
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“Haint” It Grand?
Dear Reader: Deep breath…I am doing it! I went to a Benjamin Moore paint store and picked out my shade of “Haint” Blue…(but actually since it keeps out “Boo Hags” too I decided to call my shade “Boo...
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“Step Back and Learn Him”
Dear Reader: I just realized something today…now that my doors are painted “haint” blue…anybody who can’t walk through my door unscathed…is a boo hag or a boo daddy. (I hate to think how many boo...
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