Tag: love
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Let The Good Times Roll–In Sugar
What happens when you combine four clever, active children with one Papa who isn’t quite as quick but has the power of choice? Four days of fun fueled by sugar and pizza. While I was three states away helping with baby Huck, John was watching the four older grandkids while their folks had meetings in…
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When The Cost Of Loving Is Worth It
They grow fast the first several months you have them. Puppies and babies. Perish the thought I’d ever confuse the two. I’ve been spending time with my new grandson, Huck, in Austin. It’s been four weeks since I’ve seen him. He’s grown. A lot. More interactive. More focused. More fun. He’s now his own little…
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Delightfully Different–Not Divergent
Most of the family came home for Easter. For a variety of reasons. I’d love to say they all came to be with us. That’s only partially true. The real reason stemmed from Courtney’s sisters all wanting to throw her a bridal shower. In five months, she’ll be Mrs. Michael Wickberg. We love Michael. He’s…
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When Three Of A Kind Beats A Full House
One of my favorite movies of is “White Christmas”. I know. It’s spring. But it’s been really cold. What’s made me think of it lately is a particular scene in the movie. Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen played the Haynes sisters, foils for Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. They were close—working, living and performing together.…
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What Does Love Smell Like?
It’s intriguing how circumstances can change the way a person views a special day. A holiday. Twelve years ago on Lincoln’s birthday, my Dad graduated to heaven. A day a good man was born; a day a really good man died. His memorial was on Valentine’s Day. I don’t look at February 14th as cupids,…
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