Rhonda’s Blog

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Dec 01, 2009

Little encouragement to be found in the headlines

After last week’s grim look at some of our bad habits over here, I realized there was one I missed. If you’ve read the column for any length of time,

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Nov 25, 2009

Some habits need to be broken

“A habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.” So says Frank A. Clark. Nuts. Just as I’m getting

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Nov 17, 2009

It’s a colorful life

Life, I’ve decided, is a rainbow. Creation itself bears witness to this as we’ve just seen with the advent of autumn. The Good Lord could have colored our world in

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Nov 13, 2009

“Where everybody knows your name”

“Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name, And they’re always glad you came; You want to be where you can see Our troubles are all the same;

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Nov 10, 2009

Mouth-to-mouth would give ’em nightmares

Middle 2: “When Jamison finally moves out, lock the door!” Middle 1: “Do people actually do that (bring their families to their parents to entertain)?” Me: “Not really. That’s why

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Nov 09, 2009

“If You Give a Boy a Dishcloth” found in autobiography section

October is a big birthday month for the Schrocks. In fact, it’s pretty much bumper-to-bumper traffic. Our third son led the charge, turning 11 on the 20th. Niece Audrey turned

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Nov 04, 2009

How many fingers

“Jamison. How many fingers am I holding up?” Sometimes it’s the quiet ones that land the zingers. I love it when that happens.

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Nov 03, 2009

‘Follow your heart’ is bad advice

In the Good Parents handbook, there is a list of phrases that have been used by mothers and fathers since time immemorial. Stop making that face or it will freeze

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Oct 26, 2009

It takes a MOB to bring the Games to town

Okay. I admit it. I’m an Olympics junkie. It’s my thing. Part of it is the patriotism I feel when I see our athletes in competition. Part of it is

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Oct 26, 2009

Fuzzy Math

Then he followed it up with, “Since I’m 16, and since 16-1 is 15 and 15×2 is 30, then you need to give me your 10.” Huh? What? After we

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