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Patience Overrated? Nope.
As I pondered how to have the best and most courteous patience on a very late flight from Chicago to Phoenix, I could feel the four hour delay taking its toll on my nerves. A thunderstorm caused a lot of havoc at the airport, halting all flights and activity…
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Checking My Words and Attitude
As a parent, I ponder why it seems that I have more wisdom now that my children are grown up and out of the house? Wouldn’t it make sense that as a young mother, fresh out of college and career experiences that I would be a natural at managing…
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The Game of Life as a Mom: Three Levels
Recently, I traveled on a trip with my senior mother and adult daughter. Three generations of strong women who have endured varying hardships but stayed steadfast with faith and hope in God’s promises. How incredible to learn and be encouraged by different generations, the perspective of women decades apart…
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What in the World Do I Do with My Flaws?
Flaws – we all have them. We recognize some of our flaws, while others just remain unnoticed. Well, unless, you are lucky to have kids or a spouse point them out to you. The funny part is that they do it for free; we don’t even have to pay…
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A Seashell Lesson
As we walked along the beach on a recent trip, seashells of all sizes and shapes decorated the hot sands. Stories, analogies, and lessons can be told with themes of seashells. Home décor of seashells and beaches find their way into bathrooms, bedrooms, and other household nooks. Do you…
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Are You Sure You Trust Me?
My go to place for alone time is the desert mountains. In less than 10 minutes I can go from my garage to the trailhead, ready to start off on my trek. I like to say I am a well-rounded hiker. I’ll hike flat trails, higher ascending trails, desert,…
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My Overactive Thinker
This past weekend, our family and a large gathering of friends from a span of about 28 years spent an enchanting evening together in the March cool weather of Arizona. The dream of writing a book was followed by a book launch event. When I first told Kurt, my…
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A Goldendoodle Becomes an Influencer
Imperfections. Imperfections that we notice and others don’t. For about 25 years, I had a ridiculous wart on my right thumb. Nobody would ever know this, except for the funny bump on my teenage fingerprint card. After my dad died in 1985, age 16 for me and six for…
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Chicago is My City
Do you have a special place you love to visit? Perhaps it’s a place from your childhood or a fun spring break trip. Is it a city, or is it the whole state? Is it a certain park or destination spot? For me, it is, well, Chicago. If you…
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Past, Present, and Future – 3 in 1 Gift
My mom has a favorite quote she shares with us often, “The past is history, the future is a mystery, this is the present and that is why it is called a gift.” In doing some digging, I found several variations of this quote that date back to 1902.…
