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Tie me to your apron strings, A song as old as time; Yet, today I heard it differently It wasn’t just a rhythm. The song describes happy times, upon their mothers knee; Where she sang to them, And wiped their tears, Its a place they always liked to be. If she ties them to her apron strings, She can protect…
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March 2016 IF you have ever watched the classic movie YOURS, MINE & OURS, with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda. Then you will understand that in the middle of the movie when the two parents get married and have 18 children between them and they go to the commissary to buy their weekly groceries the cashier always announces…
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IN LAWS AND BLACK SKILLETS Back about 34 years ago I married into a family that was southern born and southern bred as the old saying goes. From the deep south. Where there is no “Sweet corn bread” made from a Jiffy mix, but rather the old-fashioned kind of cornbread that you make from scratch…
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Fire: Friday the 13th of April 2018 AND THE ACCIDENT. Jan 12, 2018 As superstitions go, I have never been a believer in them. Now and again I will participate in some silly ritual like making a cross on my windshield if a black cat crossed the road in front of me, I wont walk…
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Our granddaughter Norah and the actor portraying JESUS. A few months ago on April 20, 2019 We are blessed to have 12 grandchildren. Five of them live in Syracuse Indiana. For the last couple of years these 5 kids have been a part the CHRISTS PASSION, play that is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion…
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NOVEMBER 2022 Words are powerful; humans are the only ones that can speak. Animals cannot speak words, yet we carelessly toss words around and spray them like poison potions. Words have a double edge to them. They can create such beauty, peace, and tranquility, or they can destroy everything and people within moments. We can…
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May 2016 There are two basic fears in all of us. The first is rejection, and the second is a fear of dying, and thinking that during our brief stay in this world, those who we really love will never knew who we truly are. It’s a crazy world we live in most days. Seems…
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Shortly before Christmas 2015, I received an instant message from someone I had never met. It was an older woman named Rosemary, and she messaged me out of the blue to tell me that she really enjoyed some of the posts I had posted periodically on Facebook. I thanked her of course and tried to come off as…
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Many times throughout this crazy vessel called life, we jump on board a passing tugboat, leap onto a speeding jet-propelled outboard, or perhaps wine and dine with others on a fancy Yacht. Real life sometimes gets turbulent, and staying above the rising water tide can be almost impossible. Every single human begins the same way.…
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Life can be so hard. It can push you up against the wall with so much sadness and turmoil, drama and tragedy till you are not sure which end is up. Life is also full of beauty, bliss, joy, and happiness. Most days, we feel like we are in the middle of…
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