Tag: belonging
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How Big Is Our Table?
With six kids, we’re often in a place where we’ve needed to add another seat to the table. Friends would get invited last minute. People would still be around at meal time. John and I learned early that it didn’t matter what we served if we served it with kindness and an attitude of joy.…
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We Are Family
Every man, woman and child has begun the same way. I’m no biology wizard, but I do have six kids. It takes an egg and a sperm to make a human. The combined effort of a man and woman–however that might look. We all have family–the biological reality that our individual gene pools are made…
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Hearts and Flowers and Loneliness
“You know there’s nothing great about Valentine’s Day,” mumbled my then 17 year-old daughter. She was a senior in high school, had a lot of friends, but no special guy for this special day. She was quite over the drama of this holiday. The balloons and flowers that were given with great fanfare at school.…
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The Mutt in Me
When I was younger, I knew I was an avid animal lover. My dream was to own a pet rescue facility and take care of animals that were rejected by owners or given up by those pressured by their circumstances. Where Frisco is concerned, I’m an animal tolerator. Frisco is our resident pooch, a Havanese…
Tip of My Iceberg 