Lessons …

Well, we’ve been without a car for an entire weekend now.  I’ve gotten over the shock of temporarily losing my driving privileges, and now I’m moving into “okay, let’s deal with it” mode.
On Saturday, my kids and I had a big “adventure” and took the bus to do a fairly large shopping trip (had to take everyone [...]

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If it’s not one thing, it’s something else …

I was on my way to a funeral yesterday when I got pulled over for expired license tabs on my van.  Ugh.
The tabs had only expired a couple of days before, so it shouldn’t have been that big of a deal.  Or so I thought.  But much to my surprise, the police officer suspended my driver’s [...]

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And now it’s October …

It was surprising to find that the last posting I made to this blog was way back near the beginning of September.  So much for my good intentions about posting more frequently.
It was a crazy month.  Here are some of the highlights (and low lights, too) with a few prayer requests sprinkled in for good measure:
1) [...]

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September is …

Shameless Self-Promotion Month (okay, here you go)
Update Your Resume Month (oh, I hope I don’t actually need to anytime soon)
National Rice Month (visit this site to donate rice & improve your vocabulary)
National Preparedness Month (always a good idea)
National Potato Month (recipes)
National Chicken Month (more recipes)
National Mushroom Month (I am SOOOOOOOO allergic!)
Mold Awareness Month (more [...]

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“My Life” Wordle

I pasted in the text from my blog post, “Where Things Stand Today,” and this is the graphic that Wordle made for me.  Wow.  It’s like a snapshot of my life.  (Just click on the Wordle below if you want to see a larger image.)

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A youth update …

Last night we had a Youth Group Game Night.  It was generally supposed to be just a time for fun and fellowship, with a short teaching time thrown in somewhere.  But the more official “Youth Group Meetings” weren’t going to be starting for a couple of more weeks.  I’m surprised to say that I think [...]

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This and that …

I don’t really have anything particular to share, but since I was sitting at the computer, I decided I’d better try to get back in the habit of at least occassionally dropping a post here on my blog from time to time.
The pastor at our church is back from a three week vacation.  I spent [...]

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What a long, strange trip it’s been …

Sorry I’ve virtually vanished from the face of Cyber Space this summer.  Life has just been weird, difficult, strange, encouraging, discouraging, exhausting … and there’s been no time to write about anything (or even really the ability to share any of it here, either).  I feel like I’ve run an emotional, mental, spiritual and physical marathon.
I’d thought about [...]

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Micah 6:8 song …

I can’t even begin to tell you how often the song based on Micah 6:8 gets stuck in my head.
Years and years ago, I had an old praise album that had a version of this song that I listened to frequentlly and it became firmly imbedded in my brain.  But that was well before the days of [...]

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Please pray for my dad’s eye surgery …

The stomach flu’s been going around here lately.  I thought at first it was going to be just a 24-hour thing (probably I’d eaten something that disagreed with me), but now it’s on it’s third round of 24-hour sickness.  So I guess not.  I’m still feeling tired and achy, but definitely much better than earlier in the [...]

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