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Posted on March 28, 2021March 29, 2021

Friends Come and Friends Go, But a True Friend…

“Friends come and friends go,    but a true friend sticks by you like family.” The quote comes from Proverbs chapter 18, verse 24 in The Message translation of the Bible. It…

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Posted on March 25, 2021

How Many Does It Take?

I like learning things.  I go out and research things to find facts and details.  I just did a little research using the area Americans tend to value above all…

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Posted on March 4, 2021

The Beauty & Power of Words

Some equate being a good reader with being a fast reader.  I am a good reader – I comprehend and retain (to use educational terminology).  I am not, however, a…

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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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