Tag: mistakes
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It Wasn’t My Fault

photo courtesy of Robin Battison on Unsplash It was one of those grim grey days of winter that can feel unusual for Florida. It had been raining all day, and the roads were slick and the ground mushy. I was driving home from work, exiting off the toll road and thinking I’d be home in…
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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…
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The Focus Of The World

photo courtesy of Rhett Lewis on Unsplash Every four years people from all over the world turn away from the challenges of everyday living, personal opposition, and possibly pain, to watch a game that everyone sees as the beautiful game. Maybe not so much in America, where football is played with an oblong ball rather…
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There Is No Dress Rehearsal
I’ve been to my share of graduations. Celebrations of a rite of passage, a task accomplished and a new journey ahead. Most of them have been from high school or college. This was my first kindergarten graduation. Yes, this is a thing. I didn’t realize that so much attention could be focused on finishing this…
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A Little Dirt Goes A Long Way
Other than Girl Scout camping in cabins, I’ve been real-life camping only once. We lived in California at the time, and a few friends invited us on a three-day camping trip somewhere in the San Bernardino mountains. We had five kids, ten and under, and no equipment. Folks lent us tents and other essentials to…