Category Archives: Family
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
Yesterday, my friend Alice posted as her Facebook status, “Alice can’t take much more of 9 yr old daughter drama. Really over it. Walking away…” How did all her dear Facebook friends encourage her? Did they pump her up with … Continue reading
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Thanks for voting
Paul has been doing some writing this year for Trazzler.com, a travel website. Users browse through unique, often quirky, travel write-ups submitted by users or hired freelancers like Paul. One of his “trips” is currently a semifinalist in Trazzler’s summer … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Gerda!
Today is my mother-in-law’s 82nd birthday. I miss her. Strange things often remind me of her, like serving spoons and quirky characteristics Lily displays. I’ve shopped the following article around to a few magazines in pursuit of the elusive publication … Continue reading
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Area 51
It’s secrets are known only to the military elite. I’ve read rumors that even the president doesn’t have visitation privileges. Located somewhere in Nevada, the U.S. Air Force base is shrouded in mystery. Access is restricted exclusively to those with … Continue reading
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We almost had a fight,
But Julie showed up. We’re redoing our front yard. It’s only a hair bigger than a postage stamp and only seems to be able to sustain crabgrass, bermuda, and weeds. We are abandoning grass completely and gunning for a Monet-ish … Continue reading
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Encourage one another
Bill and Cindy Finley presented a marriage seminar in the Ukraine last spring. The result may have been transformed Ukrainian marriages, but I think Bill and Cindy experienced the greatest change. The short version is that they fell in love with Katya and … Continue reading
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Koning Home on HGTV
Not really, but wouldn’t it be fun?! We all talk about how we wish HGTV would come and spruce up this room or that, but we never do anything about it because, seriously, what are the chances they’ll select our … Continue reading
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Twu wuv
Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togevah tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam… And wuv, twu wuv, will fowow you fowevah… So tweasure your wuv (from The Princess Bride, 1987). We do, of course, remember the … Continue reading
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