I’ve often said in jest, but somewhat seriously also, that one of the blessings of getting older is your vision starts to go. Now you might think that an odd thing to think, but…
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Two weeks ago, after losing touch and not seeing each other for over thirty years, my college roommate and I had the grandest reunion in Memphis, Tennessee. We found each other through social media…
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My daughter, Laura, is a new mom. So for Mother’s Day weekend, she wrote a guest post for my blog. She’s learning an important lesson on surrender. My daughter, Lucy Drew, is just four…
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I think it started even before I had children, when my friend, Alice, who had three teenage children of her own, told me all she wanted for them was to raise them to be…
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As we launch into the Christmas Season bursting with Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, we often hear words like “Remember the Reason for the Season.” A few weeks ago, my daughter, Laura, as she said,…
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There is an episode of “Friends” (The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS, Season 5, Episode 4) where Phoebe and Joey have a bet—that Phoebe cannot do one thing that somehow, in some way, does…
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Do you like filet mignon? I know I surely do. My husband, Jerry, does, too, but when it comes to it, he seriously likes meat. To him, it really doesn’t matter—rib eye, T-bone, sirloin,…
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I have a little bit of strange in me, as we truly all do. We all have our stories—some rich in love, some in winces of pain. But all of us are a mixture…
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Have you ever noticed what a negative prefix “dis” is? Any word, especially anything that could be remotely positive, immediately sinks, deep into the depths, 20,000 leagues under the sea into the darkest hole…when…