Tag: Tip of My Iceberg
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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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Gloriously Messy Memories

This past week was my mom’s birthday. She passed away almost six years ago, yet each year on her birthday, my brothers and sisters and I remind each other of the impact she had on our lives. Dad passed twenty-one years ago, and the two of them made quite a pair. Polar opposites, Mom was…
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On The Road–Again

They’re becoming world travelers. Our daughter and her husband have business meetings in Spain. Rather than leaving the kids with us or others, they opted for bringing them along, to experience a new country and culture, and to learn how to adapt to what is different, like language, food, and expectations. The issue is getting…
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Do I Have To Work?

photo courtesy of Museums Victoria on Unsplash We each have different attitudes toward work. Some of us love our jobs; we look forward to becoming engaged with those we work with, sensing the significance of what we do. Others don’t have that passion. Whether it’s an hourly job, settling for something for the time being…
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The Sweetness Of Solace

From the time we’re little, we need to be comforted. When babies are born, they’re often crying, and being placed on their mother’s chest or cuddled by their dad often calms them as they observe their new circumstances. With the birth of each of my children, they chose different things to be their comforter, like…