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Category: Every Picture Tells a Story
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor For the first Father's Day in years and years, I don't have a phone call or road trip to make. Tom and I have both lost our dads, and, well, I have kind of a lost feeling today. I'm glad…
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Last Friday I made a quick road trip to Houston to take care of some business for my mom. My friend Debra graciously opened her home in Seabrook to me and TG for the night. On our way to meet friends for dinner, I was mesmerized by the sunlight bathing pastel houses…the cloudless sky…the gulls swooping…
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Tom and his brother straggled in later than expected from Florida this evening. They had to spend an extra four hours in Louisiana due to the muffler on Tom's car trying to make a break for it. It didn't succeed in getting totally away, but it did break loose of whatever major part it's supposed…
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Tom and I were driving up to Maryland for the first time so I could meet his family and childhood friends before our wedding. It was my first time in Tennessee, the Carolinas and all of those other states between Texas and Maryland. What a fabulous trip – seeing the sunrise just outside of…
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Thanks to you… …I slept in a little this morning, until the impatient sunlight pestered me awake. …I walked with the dogs along a country road, safe and free. …I'll spend time with my family, maybe play some ping-pong with my kids or watch a movie. Thanks to you… …I grew up in a…
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"…Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can." From "The Victor" by C.W. Longnecker Yesterday, at long last, with "Pomp and Circumstance" playing in the background, my name was called. I walked to the…
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I spent a long, lazy weekend with friends I've known since high school (several much longer than that)… just lying around a pool, eating, drinking, talking about our health issues, our parent issues, and whatever other issues happened to be on our minds. (Hence, I learned a whole lot about the benefits of extra…
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This adorable, freckle-faced, blue-eyed boy turned 57 today. Can you believe it? If you've read much of my blog, you know I never take birthdays for granted, but I'm especially grateful for each one of his we get to celebrate. I've spent too many hours sitting in hospital waiting rooms praying for him … come…
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For most of this day, I sat at my kitchen table, close to all of my kids plus my mom, constantly giving thanks that I could do so. I can't think of a better way to spend Mother's Day. I am blessed and I know it. "I got to grow up with a mother…
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