Rhonda’s Blog

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May 16, 2025

On Mother’s Day, humor and hope from America’s small, caffeinated mom

This essay first appeared on The Daily BS on May 10, 2025. “With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It’s all there.

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May 09, 2025

For a struggling “loaf,” allow the yeast to work

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on May 2, 2025. My people were farmers, men who planted kernels of wheat in dry prairie dirt. They sowed in

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May 02, 2025

When a stranger calls and love answers

By lamp’s soft light on a chilly April day, I open the Bible. This is the verse I read. “For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to

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Apr 25, 2025

From death to life, the promise and power of Easter

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on April 19, 2025. “The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green

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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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