Have you ever walked away from something that you loved, just for a short time, and then found it really, really hard to pick it back up again? That’s me and blogging. I know that I really, really, REALLY love blogging. I need blogging! But once I step away, it is hard to pick it [...]
Earlier today I posted on my Facebook page a challenge. I didn’t sleep well last night, as I tossed and turned thinking of how many people were hurt yesterday. Those families are feeling an unspeakable loss. Our country seems to have also suffered a great loss. A loss of innocence like that takes its toll [...]
Thanksgiving is only a few days away and I know that for most of you, the countdown to chaos has already begun. You are running around trying to thaw turkeys, figure out what the heck a brine is, how to clean the house for company when your kids keep making it a disaster area, orchestrating [...]
Today, in the continuing saga of unmedicated ADHD, I have: Heavily researched and argued on Facebook for people who work at a company that I really don’t care that much about. I mean, I love Twinkies and Snoballs, but I don’t know why I needed to know exactly how much the CEO is compensated, how [...]
I am overwhelmed. It doesn’t matter where I go or what I do, when I look around me I see a million plus one projects that I should be working on. The front yard needs weeding. The back yard needs watering. I need to go through the bag of clothes to be donated. I need [...]
A few months ago I was browsing through some yard sales looking for camping gear when I stumbled upon a simple but charming little 365 days prayer calendar. Put out by a local church, it is simply colorful index cards on metal rings, and each day has a new piece of wisdom or scripture written [...]
Whew! What a whirlwind couple of weeks. We returned from our two week vacation up to Northern Michigan on Monday night (pictures and details of our glamping trip to come soon, I promise!), and went right into Back to School prep. School started Wednesday, so we only had 24 hours to prepare. I was worried [...]
There have recently been numerous reports of people being contacted and threatened over past debts–that they didn’t actually legally owe. Collectors calling them day and night, using intimidating tactics and terms–all for a debt the person didn’t actually owe. It’s called “debt tagging”–they will call hundreds of people in a day in the hopes of [...]
Live in Kentucky for long and you learn the ways of the storms. They’re pretty regular here. We aren’t quite in tornado alley, but we aren’t far off. A few years ago through my LittleMissKnowitAll website I heard hundreds of stories of people who lost the entire contents of their freezers and much of their [...]
I have a cousin who is an addict. Heroin, to be precise. While he’s in recovery now, he will live with the burden of addiction every day for the rest of his life. So will we. While I myself am not an addict, I am reminded frequently that there but for the grace of God [...]
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