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My Biblical Heroes: Mary
“And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.” ~Luke 1:28 I am reviled among people who know me and revered by...
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Good Company
Today, several names are scrawled in the small square space of my calendar because I want to remember their birthdays: my husband, my favorite football player (J. J.Watt), and my favorite living poet,...
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In Which Two Baby Armadillos Wander Out of the Hundred Acre Wood and Wind Up...
(with profuse apologies to A. A. Milne…) One fine day, perhaps tomorrow, two orphaned young armadillos were trying their very best to follow directions they got from Owl, who had a reputation for being...
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Sister Trip
I’ve been off the grid for a few days. I took a trip with my sisters and we spread my mother’s ashes. It was a wonderful and terrible experience. Because of an awful family history, my sisters and I...
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The Bus Ride Home
It’s been a while since I sat in the front seat of a bus full of exhausted teenagers on the way home from a week of church camp. In the interest of full disclosure, I must say I am not upset about...
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Letting Them Rest
The value of life is crystallized in its brevity. I was thinking about that this morning, reading about the forever-altered city of Newtown, Connecticut as they face the one year anniversary of their...
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Ericisms: Little Ladies’ Man
Sitting in Chik-fil-A tonight, I asked Eric an innocent question: “Do you have a girlfriend, son?” You’ll never believe this, (Okay, some of you will actually…) but he proceeded to catalog them for me....
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Pillow Talk
“You need better pillows,” my boyfriend announced out of the clear blue last weekend. “Where can we go to get some?” “Um…there’s a Marshall’s about ten minutes away,” I said, to humor him. My pillows,...
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Pillow Talk: The Stunning Conclusion
Previously, on Pillow Talk: “You need better pillows,” my boyfriend announced out of the clear blue last weekend. “Where can we go to get some?” …. ….(read the linked post above for The Full Episode)…...
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What Those Roses Mean
He got you roses… There’s a subtle message in those flowers. Like all languages, meanings evolve and change over time, and the story of that evolution is fascinating to me. The cool thing about roses...
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