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Anyone that knows me, would know that it is NOT like me at all to steer clear of anything that touches my heart. The death of Joey Martin-Feek on March 4, 2016 was more than I could deal with. Here IS a beautiful, talented, young Christian Singer, Wife, Mother, Daughter, Sister. She never hesitated…
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Social Media is an interesting topic. I really appreciate when people use it to keep others informed of hospitalizations of a loved one, when prayers are needed its a very effective tool. Some folks use it to promote their businesses, orchestrate family gatherings , birthday parties, anniversaries, a baby’s birth, first day of school etc..…
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July 2015 My life is full of WOW’s. Three beautiful grown children that still today sometimes I stop, scratch my head and look towards the heavens and ask : Lord, how could these great people have come thru me.” They are truly good people. The kind of folks I would want to know more if…
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MOTHERS DAY 2014 QUESTIONS without answers. REASONS we may never know. Why does GOD answer “yes”, “Not at this time” or “ I have a better plan”. Every day I try to remember to ALWAYS be grateful and appreciate all that is before me and around me. Something is always lurking in the back…
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April 2015 Recently, I was invited to visit a farmstead that belonged to two elderly brothers who had lived their entire lives on the farm where their parents and grandparents were raised. They were in their late eighties, and they were brothers and a team, all of their own. Many area people referred to them as…
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December 2023 As Christmas draws near, my mind travels back more often than usual to when I was a child and all our Aunts and Uncles were still here. They were the family icons, the main stain, and life seemed simpler. We lived in a family neighborhood. Literally. My Dad has six siblings, and all…
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THE SUMMER OF 1965 Stan, is the oldest of us four kids. I came along just fifteen short months later, and though I was second in the birthing order. I was the CEO of my three brothers. {we laugh about it now days, but they used to salute me and say, “yes Sir, Sargent General…
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GRANDPARENTS WILL GET THIS. Circa 2007,We were down in Syracuse Indiana visiting with our son Thomas Shelby and his young family. We all zipped through the local k-mart grabbing a few groceries.Our FIRST Grandchild Benjamin Shelby was not yet 2. He saw this big display of Woody Dolls from the movie Toy Story. He picked…
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July 2024 I have always been intrigued by my dad’s hands, and the beauty of them as they worked and toiled through the years.Those hands have played a guitar since he was 16,( nonstop) planted crops, processed pigs, deer, cattle, and even ran a trap line along the creek to keep his family fed through…
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July 2023 Yesterday, I ran across the field to spend time with my youngest daughter’s four children while she and her hubby ran to extract her wisdom teeth. Young Jake and I were riding bikes, up and down their driveway, giving pause now and again to visit the chickens, ducks, and horses. Truth is, I…
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