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A Remarkable Plus One

There are many today who have chosen not to have children. I respect them for their decisions–I don’t know the stories others carry with them that impacts these choices, but they’re significant and carefully made. I have friends and family who choose this for many reasons, much of it reflecting personal health and life circumstances.…
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What Was I Thinking?

Shopping is a word that often brings fear and trembling to my very bones. I’ve never enjoyed it; I’m neither a fashionista nor one who loves to browse. Shopping is a necessary activity when something is required. Like food or gifts. Two of my daughters and I headed to our local Target to purchase some…
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What’s It Worth To You?

Ikea is known worldwide for its modern furniture, low prices, an inviting shopping experience, and impossible instructions for putting said furniture together. Swedish words are used for all the products sold there. For monolingual me, the words are unpronounceable and don’t really mean anything to me. This also is logical that instructions are in pictograph…
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It’s More Than Academic

School seems to begin earlier and earlier here. Most of central Florida has begun classes, some students responding with delight, others with disdain. Tiffany and Ramsay’s three children began their new year with different perspectives. Brooklyn, their oldest, entering third grade, is a learner at heart. She loves school, having the chance for new and…
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Dramatic Palette; Master Designer

The beauty of storms with their accompanying winds provides an incredible canvas of color at sunset. Skies painted with oranges, yellows, and reds that defy human reproduction and yet invite those who are creative to attempt to fabricate a likeness of the hues. I have several friends who are gifted in watercolors. I’ve dabbled, but…