Tag: betrayal
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Grinchiness Lives!
Isley and Ryken participated in the production of “A Christmas Carol” at their school this past weekend. I’ve seen several different movie versions adapted from Charles Dickens’ novel, but I’d never seen the musical. The music added to the storyline of a man hardened by circumstances, watching his father thrown into prison for debt, promising…
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Tattle Tale/Betrayal
photo courtesy of Birmingham Museum Trust on Unsplash “Mom, she hit me first!” “No, she started it!” “Did not! She started it!” I’m grateful my kids have grown old enough to not tattle on one another anymore. But when they were little, somebody was always crabbing about somebody else. On long car drives, there would…
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We Are Family
My two sisters came for a visit, leaving the desert of Tucson for the humid greenery of Orlando. I hadn’t seen them for over seven months, so our reunion was fun–and funny. My little sister had visited a year ago, and I took her to the Orlando Wetlands, 1650 acres of a man-made center for…
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What Defines You?
photo courtesy of Santa Barbara on Unsplash Cooking and baking fascinated me when I was young. The preferred norm in our home was having the adults to do it–there were no mess ups or culinary disasters to cause issues. One morning when I was about seven, I decided it would be a grand idea to…
Tip of My Iceberg 