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Faith, Family, NaBloPoMo, Personal Posted onNovember 10, 2013November 10, 2013

A year this weekend…

  A year ago this weekend, I was here: in the Okanogan.  On the spur of the moment, my husband and I decided to visit […] Read More

Family, NaBloPoMo, Personal Posted onNovember 9, 2013

Home reno projects stress me out

I find them disruptive.  They generally take longer than anticipated.  Things don’t go as planned.  I don’t have the expertise or experience to do them […] Read More

Family, NaBloPoMo, Personal Posted onNovember 8, 2013

My voice…my story…me

I developed a bad habit years ago: I talk over people.  This habit came about somewhat as a survival technique.  When I was in high […] Read More

Family, NaBloPoMo, Personal Posted onNovember 6, 2013

Fried and thinking of Spring

Stayed up too late last night.  Woke up too early this morning.  So here I am…staring at my computer screen…wondering what I am going to […] Read More

Family, Misc, Personal Posted onNovember 4, 2013November 4, 2013

Monday Mania

There’s nothing like freezing rain and a good dumping of snow to add some chaos to the day.  Yesterday the world was brown and this […] Read More

Family, NaBloPoMo, Personal Posted onNovember 3, 2013

The tales we tell ourselves

I think a part of being human is that we tell stories.  We tell stories to others and we tell stories to ourselves.  The stories […] Read More

Faith, Family, Personal Posted onSeptember 21, 2013

Brokenness

We are all broken people…in need of grace. I was reminded of this a number of times this week.  Through a blog post here.  Through […] Read More

Family, Personal Posted onAugust 9, 2013August 9, 2013

Get some space

This post goes out in particular to my friends who are parents of children still at home. Get some space. What I mean is, take […] Read More

Church, Faith, Family, Personal, Work Posted onMarch 29, 2013

Random thoughts on Good Friday

Today is Good Friday.  This season of Lent is almost over and I realize my ‘project’ didn’t get very far.  But that’s ok, I’ll give […] Read More

Family, Personal Posted onFebruary 24, 2013February 24, 2013

Sometimes it doesn’t take much to make someone’s day

My daughter had a fantastic kindergarden teacher last year. This teacher is teaching out of town for this year but my daughter and I were […] Read More

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