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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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Earlier this week I chuckled when I read a status update of a friend on Facebook.  She shared that she had just returned home from taking her daughter to preschool in her p.j.’s for P.J. day.  When she arrived, however, she learned that P.J. day was not that day, but the following day. I imagined […]

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About eight years ago, I was required to sit in front of a video camera and tell an unknown person why they should accept me into their graduate program.  I recall the afternoon vividly.  It was a Monday–the day Chad and I had off work.  I remember sitting on a chair in the living room […]

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I have spent the last few days trying to decide how I want to make this introduction.  How do I adequately introduce a woman for whom words are so very inadequate?  A woman whose spirit is so much bigger than her small stature?  A woman whose impact reaches so far that I’m certain her influence […]

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Things change. There are times when change happens in a moment.  Other times, it takes a life time.  Always, though, things change.  Things change especially if you live where we live.  Last week the sun shined brightly in the sky.  The warmth of it’s rays reached far enough to point the gauge of the thermometer […]

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