Tag: trust
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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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Pray For The Pony
When I was growing up, I was one of those girls who loved horses. Obsessed may be a better way of looking at it. I’d cut pictures of horses from magazines and put them into my dream scrapbook–the place where I planned, plotted, and projected how I would someday get my own horse. I collected…
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We Are Family
Boys will be boys. There is no saying, “Girls will be girls.” Curious, I did a little googling and found out that this originated from a Latin phrase, “sunt pueri pueri, pueri puerilla tractant,” which translates to “boys are boys, and boys act like boys.” It became part of the English language in 1589. This…
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Curiouser and Curiouser
She’s learning to eat solid food. She’s not overly impressed. Thea is nine months old, and her folks began introducing people food to her a couple of months ago. Her response has been more to play with it than to eat it. Unless it’s something she can pick up with her hands and maneuver it…
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Hearing But Not Believing
We all have selective hearing. It begins when we’re children, listening to our parents or any authority figure telling us to do or stop doing something that doesn’t mesh with what we want. It doesn’t matter the decibel level or tone of voice used–if a child doesn’t want to listen, they won’t. We had a…
