Month: August 2013

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Aug 30, 2013

Dear Big Brother, I’d sleep light

How kind of you to teach your baby brother, The Cheerful Little Cricket, my cell number. Can I just say…what were you thinking?!  Oh, I’m sure it was a hoot

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Aug 27, 2013

“Encouragement” technology would sell–housewife offers ideas

When it happens, it’s a crisis. No, I mean it. Look up the word “crisis” in any dictionary, and there’ll be a picture of a microwave oven, black smoke rising,

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Aug 22, 2013

He knows your name

Days passed, and nothing. Despair turned to anger in the pit I was in, and exhaustion hovered black o’er my days. And then. And then on a hot and bright

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Aug 20, 2013

Parents driven to distraction, even without the phones

Before there were cell phones, there was still distracted driving. I thought of this recently when a friend told me about a bumper sticker she’d seen. “Driving under the influence

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Aug 19, 2013

Come celebrate with me (and win something fun!)

It was nearly 6 years ago on November 5, 2007, that something quite miraculous occurred. In a certain local paper, page 3, Monday edition, a column appeared with a face

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Aug 16, 2013

Lightened, no longer ashamed

The barn’s throwing its shadow. Behind it, the sun does His bidding, rising silent from the east, just blocked by the peak of that barn. For a moment, I listen

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Aug 15, 2013

Broken down, strengthened up

It came up this past weekend.  Able at last to go on a date night with hubby, the venerable Mr. Schrock, we’d slipped out for the evening to catch a

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Aug 13, 2013

Local mother seeks to avoid prosecution, celebrates summer

And here it comes. In a mere three days, I will face my annual struggle, that being the dark temptation to throw tack strips down across the road as the

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Aug 12, 2013

When the water’s stirring (what to do)

On the other end of the phone, she’s teaching wisdom, giving counsel. She’s speaking truth, and me? I’m feeling grateful. It’s this one, an older, wiser woman dropped right in

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Aug 08, 2013

It’s a monumental thing

In the life of a teenager, few things are more important than gaining independence as he or she transitions into adulthood. Perhaps the most visible symbol of that desired independence

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