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- Dec 12, 2020
- 5 min
Some People Will Never Understand You, and That's OK
When we first moved from the big city to a sleepy little town where nobody knew me, my introverted brain had been overloaded,...
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- Jan 20, 2020
- 2 min
Behind the Scenes
My friend over at Unfading Beauty and Strength asked folks on her Facebook page to describe 2019 in a GIF. This was mine.
Last year was a
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- Aug 31, 2019
- 3 min
When Accomplishment isn’t the Highest Call
I am a doer of things. I’m all about the to-do lists, the completion of tasks, the self-satisfaction of being capable, and the sense of fulf
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- May 7, 2019
- 2 min
Seasons
I don’t know what I’m going to write here. Lately everything…everything except doing absolutely nothing…feels hard. Really hard. Part of thi
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- Nov 7, 2018
- 2 min
Perseverance - See What Happens if You Don’t Give In
She wanted to see what happened if she didn’t give in….
I saw this sentence as a headline on an article about losing weight. Oddly enough, t
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- Sep 17, 2018
- 2 min
These Small Beginnings
Last week, I was working on a big project, and my procrastination level reached heretofore unimagined heights. I literally lay on the floor,
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- Aug 15, 2018
- 2 min
Am I Good Enough?
It seems like everyone out there is trying to be enough, convince themselves they’re enough, prove to everyone else they’re enough. And I’m
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- Jan 5, 2018
- 2 min
How Writing a Book is Like Raising a Child
On December 5, 2017, I completed the book I began in the summer of 2008. That’s nearly ten years of something just hanging around taking up
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- Dec 3, 2016
- 3 min
Broad Strokes Paint Poor Portraits
I know this has been happening since time immemorial, but in the past year, I have been increasingly disappointed by seemingly rational peop
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- Apr 4, 2016
- 2 min
Not Perfect
Are you perfect? I know I’m not. I don’t even want to pretend to figure a percentage. I fail – a LOT.
When I was younger, I had some notion
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- Feb 27, 2016
- 6 min
Truth is Truer in Narnia or Finding Transcendence in Art
I love good art not because it reminds me of reality, but because it gives me hope that there is something beyond the reality I see.
I love
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- Feb 8, 2016
- 2 min
To Say or Not to Say
I am a “say-er” of things. By that, I mean that I almost always say something if I think it needs to be said. If I have a poor customer serv
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- Feb 1, 2016
- 6 min
On Writing and Procrastination
I am highly qualified to write this post, because I am chief of procrastinators when it comes to writing. For example, I’m doing it right no
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- Dec 7, 2012
- 6 min
Conflict Unresolution
I’ve been dealing a lot with the idea of what I thought was “conflict resolution” in my head lately, until I realized that what I needed to
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- Nov 16, 2010
- 3 min
The Up-Side of Humility
I think that in the past two years, I have been learning valuable lessons in humility…but it hasn’t felt very good. I guess that for most o
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- Mar 13, 2010
- 3 min
Why?
Hello, world. It’s been a very long time. As to the why…I don’t really have a reason. If anyone cares to read the last post from Dec, 200
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- Dec 4, 2008
- 8 min
Pursuing What You Love
A bundle of appetites. That’s what I am as a bodily entity. This fleshly tent in which I abide is intent on and, unfortunately, often conten
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- Apr 24, 2008
- 3 min
Buried or Planted?
Bury: to put in the ground and cover with earth
Plant: To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth
God asked me on Sunday if I was bu
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- Jun 22, 2007
- 5 min
What If They’re Right?
he day before yesterday, I was sitting talking to my neighbor. I loaned her a book by one of my favorite authors a while back, and she told
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