It was decades ago that my grandmother collected coupons from the A&P grocery store. The goal was to amass enough from her weekly grocery purchases to get an entire set of dishes to give to her granddaughter when she was to leave home. I was in middle school and chose the blue stoneware versus......
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This week’s prompt… Sky Diving. You have 15 minutes–go! The year I turned 50, I took 50 items off my bucket list. It seems an easy thing to do, find 50 new experiences to have in a year. It may not be as simple as that. As with many conundrums, I turned to my......
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I was on our front stoop listening to how the meek will inherit the earth from two, well-dressed, readers of scripture. While I was trying to evaluate my own life (read: figure out how to politely removed the Jehovah’s Witnesses from our front stoop without resorting to retrieving my tarot cards) when I looked......
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During such a slow news cycle, some news gets drowned out by reports of puppy sightings and kids saying the darndest things. What you may not have seen are the incredible job creation and employment numbers reported by the Cheeto in Charge. I’m here to tell you, the report omitted some minor details–the majority......
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It’s a Liebster Award which is, essentially, chainmail for bloggers so I don’t participate in questions 3-5 (but you know who you are if I was going to nominate someone). I will, though, take this time to answer Arionis from Just A Small Cog’s questions. You should really check him out. He likes hiking,......
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