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Archives
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2023
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April
As God's Scribe: I Will Come to You...
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2022
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December
As God's Scribe: The Way Everlasting...
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September
As God's Scribe: The Work I Meant You to Do...
As God's Scribe: The Day Is Dawning...
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August
As God's Scribe: I Am in the Suffering...
As God's Scribe: I May Pierce Your Heart...
As God's Scribe: Even in the Beginnning...
As God's Scribe: The Song of My Heart...
As God's Scribe: In the Wee Hours of the Morning...
As God's Scribe: Isn't Thomas' Experience Enough?
As God's Scribe: Call Out to Me...
As God's Scribe: To Reconcile All to Me...
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July
As God's Scribe: Forewarned and Forearmed...
As God's Scribe: Seek These Things First...
As God's Scribe: Find My Light...
As God's Scribe: I Adore Play...
As God's Scribe: They Know the Master's Voice...
As God's Scribe: Dangerous for You...
As God's Scribe: Great Leaders of Love...
As God's Scribe: Wolves Around You...
As God's Scribe: Ever...
As God's Scribe: An Army of Love...
As God's Scribe: In the Middle of the Day...
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June
As God's Scribe: Much to Share with You...
As God's Scribe: Believe in Me...
As God's Scribe: Do You Not See It?
As God's Scribe: Be Kind to Them...
As God's Scribe: Simple Stillness...
As God's Scribe: I Applaud Your Gifts...
As God's Scribe: My Burdens Are Light...
As God's Scribe: I Have Your Back...
As God's Scribe: I See You...
As God's Scribe: The Table is Set...
As God's Scribe: Relentlessly...
As God's Scribe: Including You...
As God's Scribe: An Introduction...
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May
A Review of A Woman's Heart...
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2020
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November
Lessons Learned from a Pandemic...
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October
A Letter to Everyone...
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September
It's Time to Part Ways...
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August
COVID Craziness Corner...
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March
60 Things to Remember at Age 60...
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2019
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December
Trinity's Tales: Tail-Waggers vs. Growlers
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August
Criticism Wanted...
Word of the Week: Garniture...
Trinity's Tales: Her...
The Grief of Tears...
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July
Love Bunny...
Trinity's Tales: My New Name...
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April
Lessons Learned from a Mammoth Charity Garage Sale...
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2018
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August
YOU Are Invited...
Word of the Week: uxorial
Maizie's Musings: A Word from the Mom Person...
Log Rhythms: Logging Off...
Word of the Week: somnolent
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July
Log Rhythms: Pictures!
Word of the Week: semelparous
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June
Maizie's Musings: Another Invader...
Log Rhythms: Door Debate...
Word of the Week: phreaker
Maizie's Musings: Flimsy Bowls...
Log Rhythms: Endless Trim...
Word of the Week: nescience
Lessons Learned from Bar Harbor...
Word of the Week: jocose
Maizie's Musings: Paw Torture...
Log Rhythms: Aid for the Kitchen...
Maizie's Musings: Endless Water...
Word of the Week: flocculate
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May
Log Rhythms: Plumb Crazy...
Word of the Week: veld
Maizie's Musings: Food Strike...
Log Rhythms: Door Staining...
Word of the Week: bloviate
Maizie's Musings: Lumps...
Log Rhythms: Cabinets at the Cabin...
Word of the Week: agon
Maizie’s Musings: New Water Bowl!
Log Rhythms: Floors, Part 2
Maizie's Musings: Weird Dog Treats...
Word of the Week: blench
Log Rhythms: Floors, Part I...
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April
Word of the Week: sacerdotal
Log Rhythms: Sanding and Staining...
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March
Maizie's Musings: 10...
Log Rhythms: Spring Fling
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2017
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November
Maizie's Musings: Birthdays
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July
Making His Appeal Through Us...
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June
Slow Reader Friday: Mastery
Log Rhythms: Semi-Camping...
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May
Lessons Learned from Another Family Wedding...
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March
The New Adventure...
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2016
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August
Maizie's Musings: Road Trip...
Log Rhythms: Favorite Online Vendors...
Word of the Week: interpellate
Log Rhythms: Delivery Delays...
Word of the Week: infrangible
Maizie's Musings: Hopping Invader...
Log Rhythms: Joanna and Mom...
Word of the Week: imprimatur
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July
Slow Reader Friday: Be Still...
Log Rhythms: Canton-bury Tales...
Word of the Week: haplology
Maizie's Musings: My Playmates???
Log Rhythms: Logging Miles...
Word of the Week: cybrarian
Word of the Week: caparison
Talk...
Log Rhythms: Stains that Don't Need to Be Laundered
Word of the Week: patriotism
Maizie's Musings: Square Stones...
Log Rhythms: Lights, Cameras, Action...
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June
Word of the Week: Beltane
Slow Reader Friday: SoulTypes
Log Rhythms: Deck Them Halls...
Word of the Week: anastrophe
Maizie's Musings: My Ears...
Log Rhythms: The Log-Raising!
Word of the Week: ablution
Maizie's Musings: Leg Hugs
Log Rhythms: Finally, Sunshine!
Word of the Week: vox populi
Maizie's Musings: Fur-cut...
Update On the Log-Raising...
Log Rhythms: Styrofoam for a Log Home?
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May
Word of the Week: pandiculation
Log Rhythms: The Winner!
Examining Examen...
Word of the Week: solecism
Slow Reader Friday: Christian Meditation...
Walking with the Lord...
Word of the Week: septentrional
Maizie's Musings: The Big Water Bowls...
Who's Your Guide?
Word of the Week: retronym
Log Rhythms: Selecting a Log Home Supplier...
My Thoughts Are Your Thoughts?
Word of the Week: ne plus ultra
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April
Maizie's Musings: The Tub...
Coming To My Senses...
Word of the Week: mellifluous
Slow Reader Friday: Praying Our Experiences
How's Your Intuition?
Word of the Week: longueur
Log Rhythms: All I Ever Wanted to Know About Logs...and Then Some
How Are You Feeling?
Word of the Week: legerdemain
Maizie's Musings: My Toothpicks...
The Wild Child...
Word of the Week: ex cathedra
Log Rhythms: The Reserve...
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March
Out of Breath?
Word of the Week: diapason
Slow Reader Friday: Creating a Life with God...
Lectio Divina...
Word of the Week: captious
Maizie's Musings: I Went; They Left...
Contemplative Meditation...
Word of the Week: caitiff
Maizie's Musings: Furless Fur...
Looking for God in Your Journal...
Word of the Week: calumny
Maizie's Musings: The Suitcase
Homeostasis and Change...
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February
Word of the Week: anabasis
Maizie's Musings: The Wet Stuff...
What Will You Teach Me?
Word of the Week: thrasonical
Slow Reader Friday: Soul Feast
Why We Should Care...
Word of the Week: bouleversement
Maizie's Musings: Bones...
What's Your Rule of Life?
Word of the Week: morganatic
Maizie's Musings: Paw Massages
Time Is to Love As Wind Is to Fire...
Word of the Week: rhadamanthine
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January
Maizie's Musings: Short People...
Your Body May Need to Diet, But Your Soul May Need a Feast...
Word of the Week: brobdingnagian
Maizie's Musings: My Cave...
God Isn't a Microwave...
Word of the Week: tintinnabulation
Maizie's Musings: My Favorite Bed
God Isn't Miked...
Word of the Week: flapdoodle
A Maizie Christmas....
My New Adventure...
Word of the Week: mythomania
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2015
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August
You've Come a Long Way, Baby....
The New Chapter...
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April
Word of the Week: panjandrum
My Next Favorite Thing???
A New Direction...
Word of the Week: fatidic
To Fleece or Not to Fleece...
Jesus Is a Nomad...
Word of the Week: eolian
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March
Early to Rise Experience Day 5...
Lessons Learned from 9 Weeks at a Nonprofit Counseling Center...
Word of the Week: chatoyant
Slow Reader Friday: The Early to Rise Experience
Early to Rise Experience Day 4...
Word of the Week: nonage
Early to Rise Experience Day 3
Early to Rise Experience Day 2...
Word of the Week: chinoiserie
Early to Rise Experience Day 1...
Word of the Day: Flashback...
Word of the Week: plastron
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February
Lessons Learned from San Diego in February...
Word of the Day: Grief
Word of the Week: mimesis
Slow Reader Friday: Start
Word of the Day: Sacrifice
Word of the Week: abecedarian
Word of the Day: Love
Word of the Day: Avoidance
Word of the Week: zeitgeber
Word of the Day: Red
Word of the Day: Absolute
Word of the Week: solatium
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January
YOUR Top 10 of MIP 2014: 2 & 1!
YOUR Top 10 of MIP 2014: 4 & 3...
Word of the Week: crepitate
Slow Reader Friday: The Rabbi Who Found Messiah...
YOUR Top 10 of MIP 2014: 6 & 5...
Word of the Week: deracinate
Lessons Learned from a Face Plant...
YOUR Top 10 of MIP 2014: 8 & 7...
Word of the Week: anodyne
YOUR Top 10 of MIP 2014: 10 & 9
The 12 Days of MIP 2014: 2 and 1...
Word of the Week: regnant
The 12 Days of MIP 2014: 4 & 3...
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2014
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December
The 12 Days of MIP 2014: 6 & 5...
Word of the Week: parvenu
The 12 Days of MIP 2014: 8 & 7...
The 12 Days of MIP 2014: 10 & 9...
Word of the Week: meed
Slow Reader Friday: Unstoppable
The 12 Days of MIP 2014: 12 & 11
Word of the Week: soigne
My Favorite Things: Samsung Anything...
Fast Five: Hey, Jude...
Word of the Week: refulgence
My Favorite Things: Oakdale United Methodist Church...
Fast 5: The Open Hand of 3rd John
Word of the Week: malversation
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November
My Favorite Things: Walmart Savings Catcher...
Things I Hope to Be Thankful For in 2015...
Word of the Week: adscititious
Slow Reader Friday: Twirl
Lessons Learned from Starting a Nonprofit Counseling Center...
Word of the Week: infix
My Favorite Things: Amazon.com...
Fast Five: No Con 2 John...
Word of the Week: opusculum
My Favorite Things: Flylady.net...
Fast 5: Philemon Philosophy...
Word of the Week: knackered
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October
My Favorite Things: Misfit Shine...
Fast 5: Oh, Bad Obadiah...
Word of the Week: hegira
Slow Reader Friday: Beating Goliath
Children of the Day Post 9: 2 Thessalonians 3
Word of the Week: fantod
My Favorite Things: Keurig Machines
Children of the Day Post 8: 2 Thessalonians 2
Word of the Week: billingsgate
My Favorite Things: A Tempur-pedic Mattress
Children of the Day Post 7: 2 Thessalonians 1
Word of the Week: froward
The Odd Days of October...
Children of the Day Post 6: I Thessalonians 5
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September
Word of the Week: bonnyclabber
Children of the Day Post 5: 1 Thessalonians 4
Word of the Week: inkhorn
Slow Reader Friday: The Way Home
Children of the Day Reflection # 4: I Thessalonians 2 & 3
Word of the Week: truckle
What My Cell Phone Says About Me...
Children of the Day Reflection # 3: I Thessalonians 2
Word of the Week: fissiparous
The Odd Days of September...
Children of the Day Reflection # 2: I Thessalonians 1
Word of the Week: cock-a-hoop
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August
Healing Hazel Amber Necklaces: A Product Review...
Children of the Day Reflection # 1: Introduction...
Word of the Week: recondite
Slow Reader Friday: The ONE Thing
Shopping List for Today's College Student...
Word of the Week: collimate
Lessons Learned from Being a Part-Time Wife...
If the Offspring Ran the World...
Word of the Week: cadge
Top 10 Ways to Annoy Your Teen...
What My Purse Says About Me...
Word of the Week: diktat
The Odd Days of August...
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July
Lessons Learned from Buying 3 Homes...
Word of the Week: toxophilite
Slow Reader Friday: Songs in the Key of Solomon...
An Unlikely Mom...
Word of the Week: bricolage
Lessons Learned from a Colorado Family Reunion Vacation...
Grocery List for a Family Reunion Vacation...
Word of the Week: spume
Go Ahead...Hate Me...
Would You Like a Family Like This?
Word of the Week: kickshaw
56 White Men...
The Odd Days of July...
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June
Word of the Week: preterit
The Tyrant...
54 Things You Have to Say Goodbye to When You're 54...
Word of the Week: offal
Slow Reader Friday: Jesus, The One and Only
Even Web Sites Get Spam....
Word of the Week: shinplaster
The Honest Truth and Yes, That's Redundant...
The New Anniversaries...
Word of the Week: perdure
The Effect of Other "Women"...
The Odd Days of June...
Word of the Week: eidetic
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May
The Real Memorial Day...
Lessons Learned from A Family Vacation...
Word of the Week: mien
Slow Reader Friday: Killing Jesus...
The Odd Days of May...
Word of the Week: risible
Lessons Learned from Lumosity.com...
An Eclectic Bookshelf...
Word of the Week: pettifogger
The Anniversary...
Eulogy for a Brother...
Word of the Week: hoise
We're Still Losing This War...
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April
Why I Stopped Writing...
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January
Another Kind of WOW...
Keeping Your 2014 Resolutions: Color-Coded To-Do List
Word of the Week: orotund
Keeping Your 2014 Resolutions...the Date List
Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions...Backwards Planning
Word of the Week: stichomythia...
Keeping Your New Year's Resolution...for good...
The Odd Days of January 2014...
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2013
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December
Word of the Week: New Words for a New Year
‘Twas the Night AFTER Christmas...
The 12 Days of MIP: 2 & 1...
Word of the Week: styptic
Slow Reader Friday: And Then There Were Nuns...
The 12 Days of MIP: 4 & 3...
Word of the Week: pinchbeck
The 12 Days of MIP: 6 & 5...
The 12 Days of MIP: 8 & 7...
Word of the Week: suffuse
The 12 Days of MIP: 10 & 9...
The 12 Days of MIP: 12 & 11...
Word of the Week: fard
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November
The Odd Days of December...
Don't Need Any More Stuff This Holiday Season? How About This?
Word of the Week: hawkshaw
December 2013 MIP Book Club Selection...
December MIP Book Club Selection...
Slow Reader Friday: Undaunted
Slow Reader Friday: Undaunted
Adages That Have Proven True Now That I'm Decrepit...
Word of the Week: booboisie
Things I'm Not Thankful For...Part 4
Things I'm Not Thankful For: Part 3
Word of the Week: ephebic
Things I'm Not Thankful For...Part 2
Things I'm Not Thankful for, Part I...
Word of the Week: frisson
The Odd Days of November...
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October
A Real Scare...
Word of the Week: jape...
Slow Reader Friday: Life Interrupted...
November 2013 Book Club Selection
Lessons Learned from 7 Years on Facebook...
Word of the Week: rowel...
Slow Reader Friday: Mere Christianity...
Lessons Learned from the 2009 Dallas Breast Cancer 3 Day...
Word of the Week: redound...
Lessons Learned from Walking 18 miles and 15 miles back-to-back...
Lessons Learned from Walking 18.2 miles...in the Rain...
Word of the Week: miscible
Lessons Learned from the Breast Cancer 3 Day Garage Sale...
8 Women Who Changed My Life...
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September
Word of the Week: depone
Word of the Week: tourbillion
Lessons Learned from Being the Rookie Parent...
"Because I Want to Be With You..."
Word of the Week: orgulous
The Weirdest Diet on Earth: The Coumadin Diet...
26 Tuesdays...the Finale!
Word of the Week: boffin
Slow Reader Thursday: Heaven by Randy Alcorn...
26 Tuesdays: Allison N. Wyatt...
Word of the Week: tchotcke
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August
100 Things I Plan to Do Now That I Don't Share My Home with Teens or Kids...
If You Visit Your Cardiologist, You'll Wind Up in Kansas?
26 Tuesdays: Benjamin Wheeler
Word of the Week: roseate
Lessons Learned from De-Kidding the House...
26 Tuesdays: Victoria Soto
Word of the Week: aegis
Lessons Learned from Being a Pansy and No, I Don't Mean the Flower...
The Boy Leaves for Lubbock...
26 Tuesdays: Mary Sherlach
Word of the Week: meretricious
Things I Love About the Man I Married...
26 Tuesdays: Lauren Rousseau
Word of the Week: sangfroid
What would an Archaeologist Say About This in 100 Years?
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July
26 Tuesdays: Avielle Richman
Word of the Week: eurytopic
Why I'm Not a Blogger Blogger…
26 Tuesdays: Jessica Rekos...
Word of the Week: balneology
What the Results Mean for MIP...
Results of the Survey, Part II
Results of the Survey, Part I...
Tell Me What to Write...
Lessons Learned from Facebook Page Insights...
Lessons Learned from Counting Quarters...
MaryAnn's Hospital Survey...
Lessons Learned from Completing a Hospital Survey....
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June
This I Just Can't Resist...
How I Cope with a Heart That’s a Ticking Time Bomb...
The New Information On Prinzmetal Angina...
Lessons Learned from Recuperating...
Lessons Learned from Heart Attacks 3 and 4...
Thank you, SCC...
So, Where Are My Posts?
26 Tuesdays: Caroline Previdi...
Word of the Week: flehmen
The Real Winner...
Lessons Learned from the Pastor & His Family...
Slow Reader Thursday: Going Places
A MaryAnn in a Martha World...
26 Tuesdays: Noah Pozner
Word of the Week: nascent
Pomp Romp...
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May
You 3.0: Questions & Tips, Part III
Slow Reader Thursday: A Grace Disguised
You 3.0: Questions & Tips, Part II
26 Tuesday: Jack Pinto
Word of the Week: canorous
Back-a-Hairy-It?
You 3.0: Questions & Tips, Part I...
Slow Reader Thursday: Tuesdays with Morrie
You 3.0: MIP Exercise Plan
26 Tuesday: Emilie Parker
Word of the Week: carminative
Wedding Cake...
You 3.0: MIP Eating Plan...
Slow Reader Thursday: If Only I Knew..
You 3.0: Mindset, Part III...
26 Tuesdays: Anne Marie Murphy
Word of the Week: fuliginous
I'm Glad to Be Your Man...
You 3.0: Mindset, Part II...
Slow Reader Thursday: Mink River
You 3.0: Mindset, Part I...
26 Tuesdays: Grace McDonnell
Word of the Week: thimblerig
The Merits of Cookies, Limericks, Sag Harbor, Pam, and Dead Ends...
Lessons Learned from Visiting Sam Moon for the First Time...
Slow Reader Thursday: There Has to Be More than This...
Absolutely
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April
26 Tuesdays: James Mattioli
Word of the Week: bosky
When East Meets West...
It's All About the Splash...
Slow Reader Thursday: Live!
Think You Don't Have What It Takes to Change the World? Think Again...
26 Tuesdays: Ana Marquez-Greene
Word of the Week: nepenthe
For Boston...
Lessons Learned Because of Kim...
Slow Reader Thursday: Jesus Poetry Slam
Just Because She's Her...
26 Tuesdays: Jesse Lewis
Word of the Week: provenience
Cheese, Please...
Lessons Learned from the "Woman's" Exam Day...
Slow Reader Thursday: Laughter from Heaven...
Lessons Learned from My First Writer’s Conference...
26 Tuesdays: Nancy Lanza
Word of the Week: zarzuela
The Uninvited Guest...
These Cookies Aren't Exactly Nestle Toll House...
Slow Reader Thursday: not a fan.
Lessons Learned from Attending an Easter Sunday-Elite 8 Adventure:
26 Tuesdays: Chase Kowalski
Word of the Week: vernissage
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March
Mexican Bunny Hop...
Things That Breed In My House...
Slow Reader Thursday: The Hole in our Gospel
Lessons Learned from a 9 year old...
26 Tuesdays: Hubbard
Word of the Week: tutelary
My Madness...
Lessons Learned from Not Running...
Slow Reader Thursday: i am not but i know I AM
Changes Since the Maize Arrived...
26 Tuesday: Hsu
Word of the Week: traduce
Espresso
Bracketology Philosophy...Big Ten/ACC style
Slow Reader Thursday: 20 Books...
Lessons Learned from a Routine Examination...
26 Tuesday: Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung
Word of the Week: scumble
Green Eggs, One Fish, The Cat in the Hat...and Me
Excuses I Can Make Because I'm Old...
Slow Reader Thursday: God's Little Miracle Book
Lessons Learned from my Dentist...
26 Tuesday: Dylan Hockley
Word of the Week: realia
The Birthday Girl...
Signs You Might Be a Naturalized Texan Woman...
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February
Slow Reader Thursday: Cross Roads
Lessons Learned from Star Wars...
26 Tuesday: Josephine Gay
Word of the Week 5: kanban
The Poetry of Dave Mattson
Love Letter To...Myself???
Slow Reader Thursday: Quitter
"The Type" meets "Perfection"...
26 Tuesdays: Olivia Engel
Word of the Week: heliacal
The Ration of Passion
Why Men (and Boys) Need Women...
Love Letter for my Readers...
Wal-Mart Behavior on 2/13...
26 Tuesday: Rachel D'Avino
Word of the Week 3: campestral
The Man of Misdirection...
Heart Attacks Give Me a Headache…
2 Heart Attacks Too Soon: Part 4
2 Heart Attacks Too Soon: Part 3
26 Tuesday: Daniel Barden
Word of the Week 2: baba
2 Heart Attacks Too Soon...Part 2
2 Heart Attacks Too Soon...Part 1
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January
Wanted: Temple Carpenters
Lessons Learned from Committing a "Neatness" on My Laundry Room...
26 Tuesdays...Are you in?
Word of the Week: fanfaronade
For Kim...
A Lesson Learned from the "Losers"...
20 Seconds of Courage...Why Not?"
Why Should Obama Have All the Fun?
16 New Habits: Pedometer Date...
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