Tag: Tip of My Iceberg
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Small Town Connections
Our family ventured to Upland, Indiana, this past weekend to watch Sydney play her senior soccer game. Upland isn’t anyone’s booming metropolis. With the population just topping out at 3,800 people, it’s one of those little Midwestern towns that often pass so quickly that if you blinked, you’d miss it. We had the chance to…
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Are You Reddy For It?
Sydney has played soccer at Taylor University for her entire college career. It’s been an opportunity to make new friends and engage in a sport she loves. We were there to celebrate her senior game, with family and friends from Orlando, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, to honor her and the other senior players who had committed…
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Just Do It Anyway
Some people in life never give up; they take on the challenges before them with a vim and vigor that often surprise others. They’re not easily unhinged by the difficulties we all encounter at some point. My grandmother on my mom’s side was one of those people. She stayed in Czechoslovakia with her children while…
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Autumn Addiction
I receive amazing photographs from my daughter and her family in Colorado, and most of the time, I’m delighted to vicariously enjoy their love for the outdoors. We don’t have those kinds of outdoors in Florida. When I got the pictures of their time in the mountains, I was jealous. I grew up in the…
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Forgiveness Is Freeing
Photos courtesy of Jeffrey F. Lin on Unsplash As a fan of the beautiful game, with all six of my kids having played soccer and many of my grands having played it, I have strong opinions about how a particular match is progressing. Two of my grands, playing at different universities, aren’t getting the playing…
