Category Archives: life situations

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Saying Goodbye

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

Steve and I have been busy this year with his mom.  A really neat lady. We’ve been moving her into an assisted living facility, moving her to the hospital, moving her to the nursing home for the one night before … Continue reading →

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Suicide: Selfish Action or Despairing Reaction?

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

Odd.  Just this past week I got out my Purpose Driven Life Devotional to use it again, needing to understand life better, trying to wrap my head around our purpose. And now, ever since Sunday morning at church, when our associate … Continue reading →

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My Harlequin Romance

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

A few days ago Steve and I received an awesome wedding gift in the mail.  My cousin out in Utah makes cards, and she sent us a whole batch of them… from Christmas and Easter cards to birthday cards.  They … Continue reading →

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A Serendipitous Epiphany

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

Now and again I have a wonderful serendipity.  And very rarely it coincides with a fantastic epiphany.  Actually, I could probably count on one hand the serendipitous epiphanies that have occurred.  I blogged about one epiphanic moment already. But the one … Continue reading →

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Making Vows

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

Last month, as most of you know, I married Steve.  We made vows to one another.  And we put inscriptions inside our rings that we didn’t let one another know until the ceremony.  So in the pictures on the left … Continue reading →

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Our Best Gift for Christmas this Year!

Posted on December 5, 2012 by

Some years are just better than others.  This is one of those years.  Good things are happening to make us smile.  And this little gal is one of the best: Her name is Nia Martin, the daughter of Wes and … Continue reading →

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happy-birthday-to-me on Father’s Day

Posted on June 17, 2012 by

This picture would have been taken sometime in the 1940′s, perhaps around 1944.  I don’t know if it would have been before or after the War.  Dad was born in May of 1924 in a farm house in Southern Illinois, … Continue reading →

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Thoughts of an addict

Posted on June 2, 2012 by

Don’t tell me what I’ve done. You don’t know how I feel. What am I even capable of? I will steal, but will I kill? That test has not presented itself And for this I do not know But I … Continue reading →

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… as the day is long

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

The days are getting longer.  I like that.  The light continues for evening working in the yard, walks around town, sitting on the porch, and chatting to the neighbors.  Funny.  The way our lives are relegated by the minutes. Have … Continue reading →

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Pharmaceutical Companies Kiss My ….

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

Have you ever tried to open one of these: This is now what my AllegraD comes in.  The next-to-impossible-to-open blister pack!  Before deregulating them, I could go to the pharmacy and get them in a nice, big, brown bottle that … Continue reading →

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