My granddaughter, Lucy, when first beginning to talk, tried to call me—a name my daughter thought I would like to be called—Amma Kimmie. The “Amma,” quickly lost in the speech of a one year old, was dropped, and I became Kimmie, a name I love to be called. One day though, when coming to visit, Lucy burst through the front door and with much love and affection, yelled to me, “My Kimmie, I want to show you something!”
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We live in a messaging world. Whether it’s on Facebook, iMessaging, texting, or emails, I would guess that most of us communicate far more often with the written word than ever with a phone…
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I don’t often remember my dreams, but this past Tuesday morning when coming back to consciousness, for I do sleep hard and deep, I had one of those split-second strange ones—the kind that seems…