Category: General Musings
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And Then They Were Losers
Mistakes Losses Failures From one to the next to the next. A downhill slope. As children, we aren’t usually taught to lose well. Americans in particular have an incredibly low tolerance for losing. The reality is, we all lose sometimes. We all fail. But in a culture where former greats are shamed for being less…
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A Trash Can Away From Greatness
We didn’t have television growing up – or rather, we had a television and a VHS player…just no channels. No, I’m not Laura from Little House on the Prairie. It’s just how it was. But my great aunt Ruth lived in a house attached to ours, and she had basic TV channels, which was a huge deal.…
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Guest Blog: Somewhere to Land
This guest blogger is a woman of prayer, a spiritual director, a mother, grandmother, observer of nature, and caretaker of souls. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a post by the the woman who raised me: Lucky Jane. July 14, 2016. 10:00 p.m. I stand at the kitchen sink washing dishes, in a state of…
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Let’s go
I am sitting on a friend’s bed, enjoying a light breeze in sunny California, but apparently I must write to you. I have words to be read, you have eyes to read, we’re a match made in heaven and I cannot stand to be apart. But I’ll keep it short: On Friday, you will hear…
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Guest Blog: Expert Advice
An introduction to this guest blogger feels necessary, but it can be short. Unique in more ways than I can count, with the steadiness of an Ent and the wits of Lewis Carrol, this author loves knowledge, people, cooking, and words. She’s a champion frisbee player and a force to be reckoned with if you…
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Something for Your Monday
Two things: I love this, and thought it might make your Monday better, too: 2. I’m going to be traveling this week and next, so consider this your head’s up in preparation for…GUEST BLOGGERS! That’s right. New voices, new thoughts, new senses of humor. Brace yourselves. And check back on Friday to see who…