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Love My Hummer!
I’m procrastinating getting ready for work this morning. I have a new job, and learning new things has never come easily for me. I didn’t leave my last job by choice, so there’s a bit of lingering bitterness mixed in with all this “starting over” that began back in October. A couple of months ago,…
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My View From Here
Living in the city, no matter the size, is waking in the morning to the smell and feel of fresh night air. A yawn and a stretch later, that intoxicating aroma is smothered by the sickening odor of exhaust and fumes of an awaking city full of automobiles rushing to a destination of “another day,…
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Brrrr…
The wind blows hard here at times. We are not “The Windy City” but we could be a close second. Today, the temperature outside is 55 degrees with high winds, which makes it feel like sweatshirt weather inside. Stew sounds good for dinner on a day like today. But, I guess chicken spinach tomato pasta…
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Maybe Next Time
This is another post about my mom. She is so fun for me to be around. She tells great stories on herself. The latest one is that she was feeling really brave after she realized she could drive again, since the pain in her knees from a recent fall no longer kept her from driving…
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My Mom’s Friend is My Friend’s Mom
Tuesday, I took my mom to the doctor to discuss the pain in her knees. His office retook X-rays of her knees and said there was nothing broken. He gave her a cortisol injection in both knees, said she probably has a “bone bruise” from her last couple of falls, and sent her on her…
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Creatively Speaking
List three books that have had an impact on you. Why? * The Scriptures, because they are how God speaks to me. * The Giving Tree – because that tree gave everything it had because of the love it felt for one person. It reminds me of Christ. He gave all… because of the love…
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Are You Living My Dream?
It was the year I turned twenty. Two months later my my fiance and I were married. I became a wife and instant mom (a story for another post). I left home for the first time and moved with my husband from a western state to the eastern (midwestern?) state of Ohio in the Sandusky…
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A Walk in the Park
Not every choice or experience in this life is as simple or easy as a walk in the park. I wish it was, but it just isn’t. However, with each difficult situation comes learning, deeper understanding, and meaning. Growth. It’s true. This life was never meant to be a walk in the park. Rather, it…
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Pondering Joe Rogan Questions Big Bang
https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-rogan-says-he-finds-jesus-resurrection-more-plausible-than-big-bang-theory This kind of goes along with my recent post about my feelings of the creation. It makes sense and is what I believe. How could we go from nothing to everything from just a “Big Bang?” I believe God was in charge of the creation. Not simply an accidental crash bang, and here we…
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Memorial Weekend
Even as a child, I loved the peace and quiet of a cemetery. Today, as my mom, siblings, and I stood near Dad’s headstone, we shared a few memories and a few laughs. Dad would have been laughing right along with us…. He probably was. 😉
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My Dad
Who would you like to talk to soon? I wish I could talk with my dad. He was so great to talk with. He could talk about anything! I particularly enjoyed our conversations about God, creation, where we came from, and dinosaurs. He was a bit of a deep thinker. I like deep thinkers who…
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Snapshots of Life
The sun was dropping, the air was cooling, and the shadows were lengthening as I briskly walked around the almost two-mile loop at our community park. Several snapshots of life jumped out at me as I progressed along the path. There were groups of small children talking, laughing, and squealing as they ran from one…
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My husband and I raised three daughters together, and when I look back, it’s hard not to feel a deep sense of nostalgia, not just for their growing-up years, but for my own childhood, courtship, and the early days of our marriage. Those memories hold a little bit of everything, laughter, heartache, and a whole lot of love woven through it all.
I’ve found such joy in journaling, writing, and blogging about the things that matter most to me like God, family, life experiences, thoughts and opinions, memories, feelings, traditions, hobbies, and family history. There’s something important about putting these moments into words, about capturing them in a way that can be revisited and shared.
Through my stories, traditions, and reflections, I hope to connect with others who value these same simple, meaningful parts of life, and who might be willing to share a bit of their own stories, too.
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