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Jul.21.2010
In the aftermath of Teghan Alyssa Skiba’s senseless death, people are shaking their heads. http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7564831
Whenever a child dies, many wonder why such young lives are prematurely ripped away rather than given the opportunity to live out...
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May.02.2010
“God allows us to experience the low points in life in order to teach us lessons we would not learn in any other way. The way we learn these lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.” ~ Stanley Lindquist
To the joy of most children on a traditional school...
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Nov.17.2009
This is a great article from the Wall Street Journal called “Story Time: The Heck with looking foward. There’s value in looking back.” It is about the wisdom of telling stories from the past to younger family members as “a deft way to transmit lessons about life while strengthening generational...
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Aug.04.2009
Earlier today, you would have found me cross-legged on Elle’s bedroom floor, folding the top flaps of a box together with one hand, holding packing tape in the other. Sealing away for a few weeks some of the odds and ends that string together the life of an eight year old girl.
As I ran the tape...
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Jun.19.2009
My little sister says when I was in high school she could always find me holed up somewhere inside or outside the house with an apple in one hand and a book in the other.
I wasn’t interested in television. I wasn’t interested in magazines. I wanted a book on life that was full of adventure, far...
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Jun.08.2009
This Lightning-blasted Tree Reminds Me of God's Power.
“In God we trust” appears on our currency. These words are controversial. They prompt some people to fight for their removal, while others insist that they belong on our money and everywhere else.
I ask: Do we trust God? If so,...
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May.22.2009
They pile into the car, arms full of backpacks and folders and reports cards. The word goodbye fresh on their lips.
As I navigate the school parking lot, I adjust my rearview mirror so that it fills with their two faces. Today would be a tough day, I knew that much. The last day of school, their...
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May.19.2009
I was in the middle of nowhere, but I felt as though I had arrived at someplace important and pivotal. A place that should show on some map of my life with the words Go here.
Heavy and golden, the moonlight sank to earth on a parachute of stars and brought everything around me out of the shadows -...
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Apr.27.2009
Some stories go on, even when we wish they would end.
This, I know.
My fingers tingle with wanting to snap the book closed. My mouth opens to declare well, that’s that so I can get on with the next story, whole and separate and not tied to the last. A brand new Once upon a time followed by the...
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Apr.08.2009
... And what I'd like to share with yours.
With prom season, school graduations etc. just around the corner, and as the parent of a teen, I felt it was important to share.
Today, my sixteen-year-old daughter's school was surrounded by EMTs, police and fire fighters. A helicopter hovered above the...
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