Over the past few weeks, temperatures continue to make me think summer is still here, but I know that fall arrived because of my schedule. For many, the start of school marks new beginnings. Just like the…
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Sometimes, no matter how hard we try to connect, we fail. This seems to be my life the past month. My connections have been affected in multiple ways. This started with limited cell service in foreign countries…
The swelter of summer is upon us. I miss the days of old when I spent my summers at the lake near the town in which I grew up. Hours of swimming around, floating on rafts and…
Freedom is a gift easily taken for granted. We come and go, doing what we need and want, without a thought…running to the store for a gallon of milk, worshipping at church, boating at the lake or traveling…
Death sprang up in every direction this week. Sadness prevails. So much to process, I struggle to mourn, feeling a bit paralyzed. Why now? Why these people? Too many, too young, and no good reasons! Over and…
Summer…The season in the middle; full of sunshine, swimming, cookouts, gardening, flip flops, popsicles, the great outdoors, sunscreen and vacations. For many, we were programmed early in life to long for the break from cold, school, and…
Last week I was challenged to be less guarded in my writing. “We want to know more about you!” Some days I wonder what people really know about me. I fall into the private category when it…
The End…endings come around regularly. Endings surround us in many forms; floating across the big screen, on the final page of a novel, to the obituary section of the newspaper, another school year complete, struggles or trials,…
Beginnings produce various feelings in people depending on how they are wired. From beginning a new day to the start of a project to relocation, each of us faces numerous beginnings in the journey of life. Understanding…
There are two times a year I have kindly labeled The Hemorrhages. They revolve around the school year. One comes in August and the other in May, but are called this for very different reasons. Each August, school…