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Category: Remember when…
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~ Abraham Lincoln I collect things … books, crosses, photographs. I also collect memories, tucking them away in my heart, filing them according to category, to be pulled out at a later date when they're needed.…
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When you think about it, life is so very fragile, so touch and go, and there are so many things that can go wrong – that do go wrong sometimes – that it's a miracle any of us are even here. When you think about the pain of childbirth, the exhaustion of taking care of…
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"Those that will learn to pray, let them go to sea." – George Herbert Welsh, poet 17th century I'm thinking of the pristine beaches of northern Florida …so many memories in my heart … the kids digging in the sand, building castles, gathering shells, snorkeling and bodysurfing …the deserted stretch we lucked upon last summer,…
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Max appeared at the back door the other morning just at sunup, soaking wet from head to toe. Now, this dog loves water – he'll lie down in a 3-inch deep mud puddle and even in the middle of winter, he'll angle off into the woods to take a dip in one of the ponds…
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It was one of those moments you can't forget … one of those "I remember the first time …" events that are seared into your memory so deeply that if you close your eyes, you're back there again, just like that: … It's 1978-ish. I'm sitting in my friend Bruce's truck, watching him pop in…
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The frenzy has passed …the planning, the emails, cleaning, shopping, cooking. Now I'm just waiting, trying to comprehend that it's actually here … an event I've been looking forward to for months. Now I'm just sitting here, waiting, watching the clock. Tonight some of my favorite songs will be sung right here in my own…
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A friend emailed me yesterday, wishing me a happy belated birthday, and explaining that she was late because one day in late March "I was going to work when a 22 old girl ran a red light and hit me. She never even looked so no brakes were applied so I got the whole slam. I am…
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Back when I was in junior high, no slumber party was complete without a scavenger hunt, when you divided up into teams going door to door through the neighborhood gathering up things like safety pins and matchboxes from Taco Bueno. The first team to gather everything on the list won. One specific scavenger hunt stands…
Long Hollow 