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Category: Remember when…
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The dogs and I walked through a valley shrouded in mist this morning – it swirled up under my umbrella, making me feel a little silly carrying it (in my defense, I thought it was raining when I glanced outside before heading out because the mist condensate was dripping from the porch overhang.) Four white-tail deer…
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I feel like celebrating tonight! Daniel checked his grades and he had three A's and two B's!!! He now has a 3.6 average – well, for this semester, anyway. This time last year he was on academic probation, so this is a HUGE leap. I am so proud of him, and happy for him, too,…
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Our oldest called this morning, just to let us know his car had died while he was driving along a Dallas freeway and he was trying to figure out exactly what he should do next. Through a "comedy" of errors, he locked his keys inside of it before he had a chance to push it to the side…
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Having another child doesn't affect your life in a linear way, as all parents of more than one child will tell you. That's still true, even when the child is twenty. Daniel is home for Christmas break, and that means more laundry, more groceries, more cooking, more bickering, more vehicles breaking down so more shuttling…but it also…
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Our little dusting of snow was exciting, but wouldn't you know, the Houston area had a REAL snowfall out of the same system that just teased us the other night. As my sister put it, "We got more snow than you…nah nah nah!!!" My friend Cliff shared pictures that his wife took - he was trying to find a safe route home…
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Imagine rich, red velvet draperies and settees…gold and gilt…paintings and statues. That was the Capitan Theater – the place to be on Saturday mornings. It's where I fell in love with Elvis singing Viva Las Vegas and where the original Children of the Corn chased me into the lobby. I was too young to make…
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The sky was filled with gray clouds on my walk again this morning, but my thoughts were filled with sunshine – my Sunshine Boy, that is, which is what I call Tommy because he's been lighting up my life since the day he was born…23 years ago today. I remember the first time I held him…
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On the first Monday night of the past twenty or thirty Decembers, everyone in Lago Vista has gathered for the lighting of the Christmas tree and the arrival of Santa Claus. A large pine tree in the median of a main street was dedicated as the official tree by some illustrious city father, and for years afterward the street was…
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Every morning when I sit down with my coffee and Pepperidge Farm Cinnamon Swirl toast, I'm transported back to the front porch of this quaint Victorian house in Weston, Missouri… Suddenly, it's not 5 am in my quiet, chilly kitchen, but midmorning on a sunshine-filled day in spring – still a little chilly, though, because it's Missouri, and…
Long Hollow 