Tag: Dayle Rogers
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Community Is Crucial

It was supposed to be a delightful hike through Honey Bee Canyon In Tucson, one that my sisters had walked many times before. It was a marvelous day for a walk, and the two of them were accompanied by a friend. They maneuvered their way around rocks and the scattering of pebbles all over the…
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Who Chooses Your Cage?

We had the privilege of combining business with pleasure on a trip to Washington DC–a long-awaited visit with our daughter and her family there. We spent an afternoon wandering around an area in northern Virginia, finding a play area that was like nothing I’d ever seen. It looked like a human hamster home with half…
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No Way Out

photo courtesy of Ellen Tanner on Unsplash I’m an impatient person. I can be composed, even patient, with people. But we all have our “stuff” that causes us to be later than expected or unaware of necessary steps we need to take. However, I’m not at all about waiting for elevators, escalators, or anything that…
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A Light In The Darkness

There were thumps and thuds on the roof, and it wasn’t Santa’s reindeer. I’d been inside the house, decorating our tree and working into a rhythm of preparing for the holidays. I’d love to approach the Christmas season with a calm and peaceful posture rather than the hurry and scurry that typically takes over my…
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The Cost Of Being Real

We had real Christmas trees for literal decades. The tradition was to go the day after Thanksgiving to our local tree providers, spend at least an hour looking at as many trees as we could, finally determining that the first or second tree we had seen would be the one we chose. The challenge was…