Bereaved and Blessed

Thursday’s Voice: Week One

July 5, 2012

It has been an exciting week for my fellow writers and me at The Today Voice since we launched our new writing project on Monday. The prompt for this week is: If your life were a television show what kind of show would it be? Who are the characters? I thought this was such an interesting […]

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Red, White and Blue Portraits (Then and Now)

July 4, 2012

THEN – 6-year-old Sean and 9-month-old Abby (June 2010): NOW – 8-year-old Sean and 2-year-old Abby (June 2012): On this Fourth of July I feel blessed to live in “the land of free and the home of brave” and wish you and your loved ones a wonderful holiday! God bless America.

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Four Eyes (Version 2.0)

July 3, 2012

I got new glasses recently. They are only the second pair of prescription lenses I have owned. Though I don’t know if I will ever completely get used to wearing them, I do like how they look. It was fun to pick out a new ones, especially since it has been 3 1/2 years since […]

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The Today Voice

July 2, 2012

Awhile back a man named Peter Combs tweeted to me and asked if I would be interested in participating in a new writing project that he was starting. We both have connections to the3six5 and though I never asked him, I assumed that is how he found me. Peter’s idea was to get five writers to each take a […]

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Simple Pleasures: A Summer Camp for the Young at Heart

July 1, 2012

It’s the first day of NaBloPoMo for July and the theme is Kids. One of the main reasons I signed up to participate this time around is that I really like the prompts that Melissa Ford came up with and am excited to write about many of them. Since we don’t get prompts for the weekend days (and I likely […]

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NaBloPoMo: July 2012

June 29, 2012

I may be am definitely a bit crazy to attempt this again, smack dab in the middle of the summer. But I am going to do it. I know it will be fun and not nearly as hard as I thought it would be when I set out to try it the first time (last November). So […]