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Car Time and Life Lessons
On Monday my younger two children and I spent a lot of time in the car. An accident on the interstate involving a tractor-trailer and power lines found major backups on our main streets as police re-routed interstate traffic through our town. It happened just before we left for piano lessons. While I know the…
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The Gift of the Tedious
So here we are… or rather, here I sit, in the dark of the night trying to figure out just how to explain where I am without it being boring or tedious. But how can I write something other than what is? Because this all seems so boring and tedious to me. Because waiting seems…
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November
Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun! One mellow smile through the soft vapory air, Ere, o’er the frozen earth, the loud winds run, Or snows are sifted o’er the meadows bare. One smile on the brown hills and naked trees, And the dark rocks whose summer wreaths are cast, And the blue gentian flower,…
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Sunday Selections: On Parenting
Just a couple posts about parenting that blessed, convicted and encouraged me this week, so I’m sharing them here: This post was a good reminder to consider what I say, how I speak, and how to encourage others in this parenting role. Beautiful and so very true… Parenting is complicated; it’s wonderful and challenging. Exhausting…
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Good Things
What follows is a long and possibly tedious update for those of you wondering where we are and what’s happening… I had blood work yesterday to make sure my clotting factors were all fine for the biopsy, but feeling unsettled and confused about some communications, I called my endocrinologist with some questions and too see…