Month: October 2012

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Oct 31, 2012

And one day, Heaven

We’re walking along, The Mister and I, down our country road. Fields lie bare on either hand, having felt the cut of the combine’s blade. Night is falling, and behind

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Oct 30, 2012

Writer recaps Olympic highlights, gives thanks that her training is done

That was quick. For four years, you waited with bated breath as weeks and months crept by. You had birthday, birthday, birthday and, well, birthday, and then it was time.

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Oct 29, 2012

Dear runner beloved

Turning to the sacred text, there it is, the story of the 1 and the 99. The story of the sheep gone missing and the Shepherd who pursued. The tale

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Oct 26, 2012

Not educated, but empowered

Her daughter’s standing there, all curly-headed. “Mama’s moved,” she says, smiling, too. And then she tells me, this petite girl, and earnest, about her job. She’s working just now in

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Oct 23, 2012

Columnist has questions for the Romneys, but won’t be taking any pictures

It’s the season for celebrity sightings. Not that I’ve seen any, mind you, but folks I know have had some excitement. In our small town, we’re not exactly overrun with

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Oct 19, 2012

Of bravery and Buddha, winter and spring

After he’s gone and I’ve written a bit, I pack my girlish backpack, grab my BOP (Bright Orange Purse) and dash over to his office. He waves me back to

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Oct 16, 2012

Many hats to wear – and they don’t all have glitter

I should count them all up. I really should. Bartholomew Cubbins did once, and his number was 500. “You think that’s a lot,” I wanted to say the other day

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Oct 15, 2012

What to do with “what if’s” (and how to fly)

The steam, it rises, curling toward ceiling, twirling past bricks. Hand wrapped ’round its warmth, I whisper prayers into my mug, breathing petitions all quiet to the One Who Hears.

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Oct 12, 2012

Three truth words when life gets hard

I’m drinking it in, this wild beauty. For a soul in the heat of battle, it’s beauty that heals. That calms. Restores. Renews. Creation’s shouting praise, and the trees afire

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Oct 10, 2012

Gooey Goodness Pleases a Picky Palate

If I’d put together a line-up of the local Picky Eater Suspects from the Official Picky Eaters Registry, you wouldn’t finger this fellow. You’d pick someone else, like the smaller

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