Rhonda’s Blog

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Apr 17, 2025

Keepers of the Light

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on March 29, 2025. In Boston Harbor, a light still shines. Towering eighty-nine feet above the rocky coast, it is impervious

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Mar 28, 2025

When you’re not the prettiest one in the room

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on March 22, 2025. It came, as so many valuable things do, in a conversation with my beloved Mr. Schrock. It

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Mar 21, 2025

Before you go to envy, consider this

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on March 15, 2025. Over 20 years ago, we moved from a city lot the size of a potholder to a

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Mar 14, 2025

Perfectly made, we “clay pots”

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on March 8, 2025. “(I want) Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever

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Mar 07, 2025

Help for other parents of addicts

This essay was first published on March 1, 2025, on The Daily BS and shared with Bo Snerdley on the James Golden Radio Show. We never saw it coming. When

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Feb 28, 2025

Common kindnesses, uncommon lives

Note: This essay was first published on The Daily BS on Feb. 22, 2025. “A kindness that seems common to you may be wholly uncommon to the one who receives

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Feb 21, 2025

What’s your heart condition?

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on Feb. 15, 2025. This week, my stalwart, blue-eyed husband had a birthday. There is a real sense in which I

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Feb 14, 2025

Seed of contentment, harvest of peace

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on Feb. 8, 2025. “A harvest of peace is produced by a seed of contentment.” – proverb Years ago, my husband

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Feb 07, 2025

How to live while you’re alive

This essay was first published on Feb. 1, 2025, on The Daily BS. It happened on a cold January night. An American Airlines flight inbound from Wichita, Kansas, collided in

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Feb 01, 2025

In seasons of pressure, increase your PSI

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on Jan. 25, 2025. Like many of our fellow Americans, this past Monday found us at home on the sofa, riveted,

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