Tag: Dayle Rogers
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Light Up The Dark

My dear husband is the master of tchotchkes. Little knick-knack types of things that amuse people for a brief moment, a short-lived trinket. His forte is finding such objects for our grands. One of his favorite items are glow sticks, the kind you bend to make them brighten up for a short time. He handed…
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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…