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Do you have a way to celebrate your memories? My family has a memory jar. It looks like a half-gallon mason jar stuffed with scraps of paper, sitting on my kitchen window sill. I was in a crafty mood when I adopted it, so it has a layer of gold glitter on the bottom. On New Year’s Day, my […]
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Christmas is one of those remarkable days that takes up an entire month. Praise God that there are not too many of these in our calendar! That being said, I do love this season. We don’t do too much holiday hosting during December. Surprised? Everybody’s calendar seems quite full. People are often stressed by the idea of fitting in a […]
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When my aunt, who always spends the holidays with us, was first diagnosed with diabetes, we all just flipped out. We thought that she needed sugar free everything and so did she. We thought she would feel left out if we had desserts and she didn’t have a special one of her own. We were wrong: she felt left out because […]
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Sometimes the sofa bed just isn’t enough. When a group of guests is joined by a couple more and then a whole ‘nother group, you can have a real challenge when people start looking for a place to lay their head at night. All’s well and good while folks stay on their feet, but there is nothing like a bunch […]
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I’m sympathetic to unmet goals. I found an old journal recently. In it, I had mapped out my goals of taking up both golf and jogging, learning stock trading and purchasing a franchise. Nope, didn’t succeed at any of them. It’s okay. Sometimes we set goals to try things out, like trying on clothes. Some activities and jobs just don’t […]
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