Say It Enough, You'll Start to Believe It
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Alternately titled: I’m a big dork and now you know. I have wonderful friends. Really, really great friends who love me and look out for me. Last Saturday when Sloan was so sick, I talked with my friend Elizabeth. She immediately identified with my fatigue and pain and did what only a sweet friend would […]
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So often I think society short changes our youngest citizens. We assume our youth to be in need of constant glitz and glamour and unable to grasp concepts without entertainment. I don’t agree. I think kids are fully capable of holding mature and in depth conversations without the need of flashy presentations. Even junior highers, […]
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A ten year old girl sits intently over her metal framed desk, her tongue sticking out of the corner of her mouth as her pencil scratches furiously across the lined paper. She sighs, erases, then places pencil to paper again. An adventure is spilling from her fingertips. It involves a hot air balloon and a […]
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It’s 11:11. Quick – make a wish! What did you wish for? Don’t worry about it not coming true. This is the internet, where dreams come true in droves, right? I wished for abundant energy. And a clone. And the skin of my youth. And a steak (I get hungry after 10:00). And for the […]
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I’m currently about 60 pages from completing Mary Beth Chapman’s book, Choosing to SEE. Have you read it? You really should. But I will give you a few warnings up front. Have Kleenex at the ready because when she gets to the experience of losing her daughter Maria, unless you are a robot, you will […]
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Social media has made the world smaller. It has connected us to one another in ways that were not possible even ten years ago. Through social media, we now have the power to hear and see the plight of those on the other side of the world. And we can act. It’s not a matter […]
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Remember when you were a kid and the world was a playground worth exploring at every turn. That was awesome. Remember when you got off the school bus and mom had a plate of hot chocolate chip cookies waiting for your consumption – or, if you were my brother, she had a plate of bologna […]
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Justin Bieber’s got nothin’ on this kid. I’m thinking it’s time for a trim. Not a cut, mind you, because I love his shaggy little locks. But his haircut is quickly morphing into a mullet and we can’t have that, now can we? I’m trying to figure out how I can get someone to give […]
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I am good at many things. I know this and I embrace it. Sometimes I doubt it, but deep down, I know the things in which I excell and I chase after them, sometimes with great glee. Sometimes with trepidation. I also know, however, of a great many things that I do not do well. […]
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We had our final harrah in the snow this weekend. Or what we hope I pray was our final harrah, anyway. We donned our hats and our gloves, our snow pants and snow boots and spent one more afternoon playing in the white fluff that’s graced our yard for much of this winter. We took […]
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