It’s midwinter blues time for me. I don’t mind the cold, and the days are getting longer, yet I find myself down in the dumps around this time every year. My Facebook memories confirmed this to me when I saw them this morning. It doesn’t help that my husband tore a muscle in his calf […]
Today I’m waiting on a snowstorm that may or may not hit in our area. The predictions are all over the place. Depending on who you listen to today, a small amount of ice to several inches of snow. It got me thinking about how we spend our lives listening to predictions. Some of them
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Some days I feel like my life is off track. I wonder why things seem to go slow for me or why I can’t seem to get any momentum. Then other days go fabulous! Life chugs along at a good pace. The biggest lesson I’ve learned from this is never to stop. Keep moving. Don’t
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Monday hit hard at 4:40 a.m. when my dog, Indy, woke me up. At first, I was upset, but then I set to work on projects I had put off until the new year. So, my optimism of the first full week in 2022 is at an all-time high right now. The second book in
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Princeton Public Library This is the historic main entrance. It remains open but the new handicap accessible entrance is on the opposite side of this beautiful building. After many years away, I begin my new job as a computer lab monitor at my local library. The Princeton Public Library has been one of my favorite
If you’ve never played the dice game of Yahtzee, you need to do it! Five dice, a score sheet, some friends, and a little time is all it takes. I’ve played Yahtzee since I was a child and have passed the fun of playing on to my family. It’s a game of chance, but there
The world has changed. We can’t deny the profound changes that took place over. We’ve lived through upheaval unknown to most of us until now. Past generations have seen things like this before, but many of us were caught off guard. Who among us thought it would go on for so long or be such
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Philippians 4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. This one verse can address so many anxiety issues or discouragement we have in our lives. When we’re younger, we want to be older; when we’re older, we want to be younger;
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Recently, I realized several things in my life crushed my plans, but what I perceived as a stop or stumbling block had actually been stepping stones to the next part of my journey. When the end of the chapter on raising my children came, I was lost. I felt like a helium balloon floating adrift
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