Yearly Archives: 2012

Night has fallen.  Three little ones are sleeping peacefully in their beds.  I have stolen away to the front porch for a few moments to come to this space.   I sit in complete darkness except for the glow of the computer screen and the street light that illuminates the end of our cul-de-sac.  All […]

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“I feel like my insides are hyperventilating.”  The words sound near crazy, I know, but they were mine.  In the middle of a napless day for Meadow and at the end of an extremely hectic week I picked up the phone and reached out to Katy who has been my sidekick most of life.  Despite […]

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“I think it [ticks] God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.  People think pleasing God is all God cares about.  But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”  -Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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Once there was this girl who sat on the sidelines.  She stood and watched as, one by one, several of her friends registered their blog names and dove into a world that this girl thought could never include her.  For years she lurked and drank in every morsel put out by those who were bolder, […]

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I think I was in the fifth grade when our family took a trip to Disney World.  I believe we spent 4 days at the Park.  For several months leading up to our trip my brother, sister, mom, dad and I saved every dime that passed through our fingers and tucked them away in one […]

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