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Kodak Moments, a Digging for the Light Excerpt
Glennon over at Momastery recently wrote this brutiful piece about feeling overwhelmed and down because she didn’t perceive her family to be happy and normal like all those snapshots we see in Christmas cards and on our social media pages. In the post she wrote that...
Happiness is Granular
A local café carries these freshly-baked granola bars. They are TO. DIE. FOR. Fresh grains, sunflower seeds and other assorted nuts, moist cranberries… Some thirty minutes from my house, I’m not able to visit often, but when I do I nearly salivate over this healthy...
An Imprint Reprinted
Homemade sugar cookies for my college kids;complete with my signature smiley faceIt's that time of year, again... Holiday preparations. Care packages filled with a little love for my college kids to have during their exams. Catching up on paperwork I let go whilst I...
A Little Tax Relief Proposal
It’s that time of year. Tax time. Almost. But when you are six months behind on accounting entries, the date breathes down your neck harder than Old Man Winter. The only activity that puts me in a fouler mood is cleaning a house I’ve let go. Oh, yeah. And monthly...
The 5 Ws of Thanks
What can we give thanks for? Two weeks ago today, the unthinkable happened. A seven-month-old died. In her sleep. The young mother had put her down for a nap. And hours later the twenty-year-old was being whisked from one authority to another. “You would think they...
My Morning Cup o’ Joe
When I was in high school I worked for a large grocery, one that was actually a Supermarket before Supermarkets became vogue. This chain had one of the first gourmet coffee centers and I was assigned to that department. “What would you recommend,” or “What does this...