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Wanna be Happy? Don’t Get Married
They say, don’t read a book by it’s cover, but lets face it, sometimes a cover, or a title is so captivating that you just have to pick it up! From the blog Converge, you will find a post written by...
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Alone Together
It was difficult to not stare. He and she, sitting across from each other at the restaurant table. She looking straight ahead, but eyes focused to his left and beyond him. He looking straight ahead,...
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Family is a Microcosm of Society
There was a moment this school year, while sitting across the table from a student, when I heard the words that I hear at least once every year, the words which tear at my heart and my soul, “my...
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Hopes and Dreams
I have something to admit … please don’t read this wrong, please don’t read into this, just be patient, and I’ll explain it fully … So, here is my admission … I do not wish for my kids to get married....
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What Women Want – Part 2 of 5
So, now part 2 … this is not as easy as I had thought it would be … maybe because what women want is NOT easy. There is so much that can be written about our human, female nature. The shrinks have...
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What Women Want – Part 3 of 5
There are so many ways to say, I love you. So many opportunities to say, I love you. There are verbal and non-verbal ways to communicate … I love you. The way you communicate ‘I love you’ is not so...
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What Women Want – Part 4 of 5
Women and footwear … they go together like peanut butter and jam! Of course some of us have far more footwear than others. I wonder if skinny women have less footwear? I mean, when I am shopping, but...
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What Women Want – Part 5 of 5
Happily Ever After … That is what women want. There is an image (just to the left) that is so representative of that to me. When hubby and I were planning our wedding, we would dream of the future (how...
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What Women Want … the Finale
Well this has been more difficult than I had counted on, when I first embarked on a five part series called ‘what women want’. So … if I, as a woman, struggle to know what it is that women desire most,...
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A Letter to My Kids on Dating
Good morning to my greatest works! of art, of creativity, of heart, soul, mind and breath. The other day, one of you asked what was my favorite age of you three. That was an easy question to answer! I...
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Love Hurts
Are you a veteran? One who has gone before? Fought the good fight? Risked life and limb of one, for the greater good of many? Do you bear the scars of conflict? Does it rip sleep from your nights?...
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Shattered Dreams
As I heard through the window the rain pelt hard on the roof of the deck, while an unfamiliar song played from atop my kitchen counter, I was transported back, about twenty-six years. I was sitting on...
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Here Comes the …
Holding on to the arm of a handsome man, she took her first step through the doors of the sanctuary, smiling from ear to ear, and every eye was on her. Her dress fell to the floor, and she moved down...
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The Expected or the Exceptional?
My Sunday evening was interrupted by Twitter: “a beautiful speech shows great character in a man” “Attractive, smart & so generous to his partner” “was beautiful to acknowledge the sacrifice of...
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Come Away With Me
I looked at my dirty toilet, Wednesday morning, and thought to myself, “I’d really rather stay home and clean my house than go away with hubby for a couple of nights.” What woman thinks these thoughts?...
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Praying Without Hope
The vehicle was filled with the sounds of a baseball game. Barely a word spoken for dozens of miles. Contentment filled my heart, my soul. I remembered hearing my grandmother say that a good marriage...
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A Love of Giving
Despite the fact that, when asked, I almost never know how many years hubby and I have been married (it’s twenty-eight today), I never forget how very much I felt that I loved him on that day … oh, and...
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One would have to have been living under a rock to have not been aware of the royal wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle yesterday. There was pomp and circumstance, movers and shakers in many...
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Marriage should never be boring … right? So, I recently learned something about my hubby of nearly twenty-nine years, and it all started with an invite to a shower (no, not a bridal shower … the one in...
View ArticleWhere You Go I Will Go
It is said that if you want to know what you value, look at how you spend your money. I think that is probably a good indicator, but I also think that what (if) we pray indicates what we value. I was...
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