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Category: Of Life and Love
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There was roast pig and birthday cake. Wine and dancing. A gorgeous sunset over the hills. A warm fire. Familiar faces. Laughter and hugs. 50th birthdays are the best! I love helping friends celebrate them, especially when it means I get to spend time with my son and daughter-in-law… …
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I made another overnight trip to the Houston area this weekend to visit my mom. Because of the weather forecast, I expected to be driving in rain coming and going. And dreaded it something fierce! So what a sweet! surprise to have sunshine to and from Houston, with the predicted rain passing through early this…
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When it rains, you grow. ~ On a local church sign I woke to the sound of rain Sunday morning. Such a sweet sound when you live near a lake that now resembles a creek after months…well, years…of too much sunshine and too little precipitation. Tonight the frogs living near our pond are singing…
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"A good laugh is sunshine in a house." ~William Makepeace Thackeray We were already running late to church this morning when we spotted him, a little dirty-white fluff of a dog at the top of our dirt road near the highway. I knew before he asked that Daniel would want to get out and…
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Usually the Monday following four incredible days full of sunshine in Port Aransas with twenty friends is a Monday in every sense of the word. But today hasn't been bad at all…except that it's too short. With everything going on in my life right now, I really didn't have time to slip away and lounge…
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I leaned on a railing, watching couples swirl past on the dance floor below, feeling very alone because my boyfriend of five years wasn't with me. I can't remember where he was. Probably with his buddies. Maybe with another girl. I worked most weekends, so I was fuming – and hurt – that he didn't…
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I spotted it when I stepped out onto the front porch one morning this past week, in between trips to Houston. I noticed the fossil first, thinking it had fallen from its spot on the windowsill above the bench where it now rested. Then I realized it had been placed there to…
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Saturday morning my dad finally got an answer to his prayers: He went to be with the Lord. In his honor, I'm reposting this letter I wrote to him here a few years ago… Dear Daddy, All of my life, you've been right here, holding my hand – loose when I needed loose,…
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1. I am kicking myself every day that I didn't become a realtor years ago. And I haven't even made any money yet! (Call me!) (Thanks to my sweet sister-in-law for the blingy name badge!) 2. I believe juggling real estate, my blogs, photography, writing, and family responsibilities is going to be harder…
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