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Posted on February 14, 2021

I Didn’t Invite this Guest

It’s a feeling that starts as an emptiness in the pit of the stomach.  Beginning as a niggling feeling that things are not right, it foretells something ominous approaching, or…

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Posted on February 2, 2021February 2, 2021

Wait, What Responsibility Do I Have in Their Lies?

I am currently reading Caring for Words in a Culture of LIes by Marilyn McEnyre (W. B. Erdmans Publishing Co, 2009). I am about a third of the way through…

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Posted on December 3, 2020

Old Fashioned Traditions

As we face the Christmas season here in the midst of a pandemic, we do so having learned through Thanksgiving about human nature and the willingness to alter traditions for…

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Posted on November 4, 2020January 17, 2021

It Might Have Been

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.;”  John Greenleaf Whittier I remember reading this quote years ago.  I tried to take…

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Posted on October 19, 2020

Words From Our Sisters

Going through high school and college at the end of the 1960’s and the first half of the 1970’s, I had been told over and over how highly ranked my…

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Posted on September 23, 2020January 17, 2021

They Show Us Who We Are, Who We Could Be

I am a lover of biographies, memoirs, and autobiographies.  I like to get to know interesting people in depth, see how they tick, learn what led them to the achievements…

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Posted on August 26, 2020January 18, 2021

A Need For Boundaries

There was a time when I had some people in my life who seemed intent on making me feel less than.  In particular, they questioned my intelligence.  A couple merely…

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Posted on August 23, 2020

“Hello, Dottie”

What makes reading such a wonderful experience? What makes people want to pick up a book or a Kindle and spend hours of their time turning pages and absorbing the…

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