Exhale & Swimming in Circles

December 15, 2011

Exhale Magazine‘s Fall/Winter 2011 Issue is here! This issue’s theme focuses on “Dreams.” I wrote a book review about Michael C. Barr’s Swimming in Circles and an essay (adapted from one of my previous blog entries) called Amazing Things Will Happen! that is among those featured in this current issue. For those of you not […]

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Time Warp Tuesday: Blogging

December 13, 2011

Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the eleventh installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here to participate and link up your […]

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…that their light may always shine

December 11, 2011

Earlier tonight I participated in a Candle Lighting sponsored by our local South Suburban Chapter of The Compassionate Friends. As many of you know, it is part of a much larger Worldwide Candle Lighting that takes place every year on the second Sunday in December at 7:00 p.m. around the globe. Though every year since […]

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Dreamers and Realists

December 9, 2011

Recently Bob and I have been catching up on our DVR watching. We had gotten behind with Modern Family and have watched a half dozen episodes over the past two weeks.  We are almost caught up and especially enjoyed watching an episode from November called “Punkin Chunkin,” which originally aired on the day before Thanksgiving. […]

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Time Warp Tuesday: Post Publishing Fear

December 6, 2011

Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the tenth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! As you may know, if you read my post last Tuesday, usually I like to kick off Time Warp just after midnight on Tuesday mornings, but last week I somehow managed […]

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Feeling Helpless, But Not Hopeless (Updated)

December 3, 2011

*I’ve added an update at the end of this post.* This week I have gotten a taste of what it feels like to be on “the other side.” The other side being a place where loved ones wait for news and do their best to show their love and support for those they care deeply […]

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