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Sep 18, 2023
When we can't help but be thankful
One of my all-time favorite books is L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. Anne, the waifish orphan, is mistakenly brought to live with...
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May 18, 2022
Tell Someone Day
Other than your regular holidays—ones like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Mother’s Day, Arbor Day—there are some pretty crazy celebrations that...
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Apr 18, 2022
Canopy bed
I always wanted a canopy bed, a canopy bed with a frilly dust ruffle and tons of fabric draping over me as I dreamed perfect, happy...
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Nov 22, 2021
A grateful heart
I have a sign in my kitchen which has been there for more than a decade. It reads: “GIVE THANKS: Oh Thou, who has given us so much,...
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Nov 30, 2020
Hope for an untangled future
Per our usual tradition, my family put up our Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving. (By the way, this isn’t a discussion...
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Jul 17, 2020
Great Grandpa
This pandemic may be called many things—scary, inconvenient, ill-timed, unprecedented. As a mom to two graduating daughters and two...
Jul 22, 2019
Fireflies
A friend recently told me about taking a group of Texas teens to Nashville for a mission trip. As they sat outside at an evening...
Aug 27, 2018
Just another day on Venus
As I was listening to the radio recently, I heard some interesting facts about the planet Venus. I already knew a few things, like that...
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