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“What if I fall…Oh my darling, What if you FLY?”
Dear Reader: Mollie came to town yesterday and we had a girl’s day out…it has been a long time since we have had a chance to hang together…we had lunch at Five Loaves, went to several boutiques and...
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Still Finding the “Little” in Summerville
Dear Reader: Yesterday evening I started reflecting back on all the activities of the first two days of this week and I felt this nostalgic love for my “little” town sweep over me unexpectedly. I love...
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Waiting for the Story to Unfold
Dear Reader: I have watched so many Hallmark movies I can almost tell you to the minute when the story line is going to start tattering and the relationship between the couple is going to start...
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You Are Never Too Old for Dreams…
Dear Reader: John and Mandy have had Eva Cate participating in several mini-day camps to keep her busy and having fun this summer. Most of these are put on by the “Rec” Center in Mt. Pleasant. But...
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The Back Roads of Life
Dear Reader: What a day yesterday was …a combination of interstate highways and “Old State (back) Roads” amid thunder showers to and from Columbia. Brooke and I had a ball! We arrived at Jackson’s...
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Divulging Some Dingle Disclosures
Dear Reader: I have been hinting that there is some “changes in the air” feelings circulating around our family homestead. Ever since Tommy and Kaitlyn’s wedding some speculation that Mollie might be...
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Immersing Ourselves in Life…
Dear Reader: It is at exciting times, like our family is experiencing now, that it is easier to become immersed in the delight and exhilaration of life. We find ourselves wishing we could just “skim”...
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Ice Cream and the Fourth…a Delicious Celebration!
Dear Reader: “Big Red” is bursting with patriotic pride and big red geranium blooms. It has just outdone itself this holiday. If a plant could salute…I do believe “Big Red” would be standing tall in...
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It’s a Girl!!!!
Dear Reader: Last evening the humidity was so thick (like Nancyjean says) one had to chew it before you swallowed. But the humidity was not the only thing thick…so was the air of anticipation…waiting...
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Baby…It’s Hot Outside!
Dear Reader: This was definitely a “Fourth Celebration” for the books…scrapbooks that is. There were so many things going on…it made your head swirl…It is one of those special occasions that requires...
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Music is the Voice of the Soul
Dear Reader: With so much excitement going on with the Dingle/Turner families …other “going-on’s” with the talented Barbour family have gone quietly unnoticed…until I got an email from Vikki…(my...
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THE GODWINK EFFECT
Dear Reader: Some of you might have seen the interview between Hoda and Kathi Lee on their show yesterday with Squire Rushnell and his wife Louise DuArt…authors of this (most recent) tenth book in the...
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A Most Wonderful Right…The Right to be Different
Dear Reader: Being a grandmother, storyteller, and proponent of the recognition of all the creative, imaginative children (in our school systems) who march to the beat of a different drummer…this...
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A Pause to Remember the Past…
Dear Reader: Yesterday morning started out so wonderfully…it had rained the night before so I didn’t have to scurry out to water the garden and plants…a lazy morning to stay in after a crazy week of...
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The Invisible Thread…
Dear Reader: While cleaning out (yes, I am still at it!) my file cabinet filled with stacks of old worksheets I used when presenting social studies workshops (for so many years) I found a Chinese...
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God’s “Surcies’ to Us
Dear Reader: Isn’t it nice to know that in this life we get second chances to understand things… perhaps we never understood the first time around? It is similar to returning to a childhood home or...
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Who said What?
Dear Reader: I love quotes. Particularly when one thought just matches recent ideas flickering through my mind or just seem to appear at the right time like a newspaper horoscope or something…or...
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Shadows, Shade and the Light Behind Them
Dear Reader: Yesterday morning I woke up early and by 6:30 was up and at’em. I have been watering my neighbor Vickie’s grass and checking her mail since she went home to Wisconsin last week… so with...
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Day by Day
Dear Reader: Many of you recognize these lyrics from the musical Godspell. One of the reasons that I loved this song was that this stanza was repeated over and over in the song….getting louder or...
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Rejoicing over the Dawning of a New Day
Dear Reader: Have you ever been reading a novel, suddenly stopped, put the book down, and then taken a few minutes to think about what you just read? This happened to me a couple of weeks ago…actually...
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