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I don't even know what a stupid book would look like, but I'm telling you right here and now, the idea of writing or having written a stupid book is the thing that's keeping me up at night these days. Nights. Well. I don't really have trouble sleeping. I've always been good at sleeping. But, I do …
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We had a party Saturday night. I am in my element when I'm hosting a party. I love every last bit of it. We decked the halls and lit the candles and pulled up all the extra chairs from the basement, and I made brownies. It wasn't anything fancy. Just hot cider on the stove, and brownies and cookies …
Always, in my heart, there was a dream to live in a penthouse in New York City. Bright lights and all. When I was little, my family lived in New Jersey and, from time to time, my mother took me into the city, often to see a show. We stood in the alley to wait for the Alvin Ailey dancers after their …
Crammed into my mother-in-law's condo, our family created makeshift beds and regressed to sleeping partnerships we hadn't utilized in decades. My son slept in the king-sized bed with my husband, my daughter on a couch on one side of the fireplace, and I claimed a day bed on the other side. My …
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"Either God is big, or he isn't," Tom said. A few weekends ago, at a conference in Ohio, I got to catch up with some friends of ours from the church we attended when we lived in Pennsylvania. Our kids had been in the same youth group and it was Tom and Beth who moved away from Pennsylvania first. …
I started blogging in 2008, and this is the first time I've participated in a Blog Hop. I don't even really know what a Blog Hop is, but I've been having fun chatting with Karrilee Aggett, my blogging cohort, who invited me to join the fun. Karrilee and I got in some good (although not enough) chat …
