Tag: rest
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Real Rest

There’s a lot of energy and joy in her tiny body. She’s barely five months old, and her name is June, but she’s already acquired many nicknames, names of endearment that make a person smile. Junie Bug, Junie B, JB. She’s happy no matter how you address her. Her parents are deeply in love with…
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Hither–Thither–Yon

There’s a scene in the “Wizard of Oz” where Dorothy first meets the Scarecrow. He’s hung up in the middle of the field, and she has no idea which way to go. The Scarecrow tries to help, but his efforts are confusing. He points every which way, both shaking and nodding his head. Dorothy’s query…
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The Exhaustion Trap

We’re at our second conference in a week, this one in Berlin, Germany. We left Milwaukee at 6 am, spent 24 hours between airports and in the air, and arrived in Berlin at 8 am the next day in time for a 9:00 meeting. I don’t sleep well on planes. I read, watched movies, tried…
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Lounge Lizard?

This time of year in Florida, we’re embracing rainy, muggy weather that makes you feel the need for a shower the minute you leave your front door. In Colorado, however, you can have 80-degree weather one day and snow drifts the next. When I’m feeling sticky and sweaty, the snow sounds amazing. Beck, at six…
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The Three Musketeers

What goes together better than soccer, loads of candy, and three young boys? When my daughter and son-in-law amped up their courage to take their son and two of his besties to a Colorado Rapids game, they had no idea what they were in for. Courtney said they should have left at half. Soccer is…