Monthly Archives: January 2012

Kleenex, coughing fits, runny noses, ear infections, Amoxicillin, cough medicine, children’s Tylenol, and constant preaching. . . wash your hands, get a Kleenex, don’t wipe your nose on your shirt, please don’t put your face in Meadow’s face–we don’t want her to get sick. (This one never works–they are like magnets to Meadow).  What a […]

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Is it possible for a week to go extremely fast and extremely slow at the same time? On one hand, I find myself saying is it Friday already?  But on the other hand I am thinking is it Friday yet?!  The week was both long and short. Reviving and exhausting.  Good and not-so-good.  Do you […]

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I’m a really big believer that we all have this voice inside of us, and that voice is God talking to us, and we are all magical, and we all have something as specific to do as our fingerprint.  And everybody should go out and do that.  And I think between the ages of 15 […]

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I must have been 12, or maybe 13.  It could have been Thanksgiving Day, but I can’t be certain.  I remember it was cold.  Very, very cold.  It was raining, too. Or snowing. Or probably more like sleeting.  I remember the thick, dense clouds that hung low in the sky.  It’s difficult to remember a […]

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I am currently tucked away in a corner of a crowded cafe.  It’s the lunchtime peak and voices echo from every direction.  To my left sits an older married couple.  It’s hard not to notice how few words pass between them.  How’s your salad?  Silence.  Do you want a cookie?  Silence. I wonder if their […]

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