Tag: sharing
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When The Elephant In The Room Is Laughing
With all the different parties happening this time of year, one of my favorites includes those where white elephant gifts are exchanged. That delightful time when you can hunt through your home for those wonderful treasures you hated to pitch but would thoroughly enjoy gifting as a joke. The term “white elephant” has morphed in…
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Too Many Cooks Make One Heck Of A Party
Celebrating men looks a lot different than celebrating women. Women get excited about flowers, fancy decorations and chocolate. Men are easy. Bacon. It makes everything better. And anything fried. That’s the manly way to eat. For Father’s Day, we had the privilege of having most our kids with us, except our son and his family.…
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The Beautiful Game–More Or Much Less
Isley has wanted to be a soccer player for awhile. Number four of five children, she’s seen her three older siblings don uniforms, head to the pitch, and engage in the beautiful game. Being an uninvolved observer, she’s been wondering when it would be her turn to play. To have a chance to show her…
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When Reality Mixes With Tradition
We wanted to come up with a tagline for our Christmas this year. With everyone home, the house bursting at the seams with people, laughter, games and drama, we needed a title for the memory. Rogers’ epic Christmas. Celebrating tradition in grandeur and scope. It’s been non-stop motion and talk. Noise levels that have kept…
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It’s Not Called Whinegiving
Thanksgiving is be one of my favorite holidays. It’s also the most overlooked, underrated and unappreciated holidays we celebrate. I’ve driven around town and have watched folks segue from ghouls, goblins and ghosts to Santa, sleds and snowmen overnight. From eerie orange lights and spider webs cascading over bushes to bright whites and multitudes of…