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Exhale Magazine‘s Spring 2012 Issue is here! This issue’s theme focuses on “Continuity and Expansion.” I wrote a book review about Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward and a poem (previously published here on my blog) called Breathing that is among those featured in this current issue. For those of you not familiar with Exhale, it is an online literary magazine for those “living and breathing through […]

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It’s Day 5 of National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW). It took me awhile to figure out how I wanted to “fill in the blank” in effort to support and participate in Resolve’s NIAW Bloggers Unite Challenge. The theme this year, as you may already know, is:  “Don’t ignore…” Though I appreciate the intention behind this theme, I wasn’t […]

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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the eighteenth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here to […]

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Last week my friend and Exhale Magazine Editor Kristin Binder, from Once a Mother, sent a message to the Exhale Staff. She asked if any of us were willing and able to create a button to promote Exhale and encourage others to get more involved with our literary magazine as readers and especially contributing writers. […]

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The the word on blog street is that it’s International Blog Delurking Week (IBDW). So I am jumping on the bandwagon and inviting you to let me know that you are here. As Mel explains in her blog post about IBDW: It is fairly easy. Leave a comment in the comment section below admitting that you’re here. You can […]

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If you are visiting my blog for the first time, thank you for stopping by! If you have been here before, thank you for returning! I have been blogging here at Four of a Kind (formerly Three of a Kind Working on a Full House…) for 4 1/2 years now. My family and I dealt […]

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