Life’s Blessings
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Blessing #15-18: My Family
Blessings Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays: I love cooking the entire meal; families all…
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Blessing #14: My Students, Ripples in the Water
Blessings “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters…
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Blessing #13: Dennis and Lori
Blessings Part of my writing journey has been to count my blessings, to focus on the…
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Blessing #12: Family Pets
I’m still raw from the loss of Sadie, our beloved Boxer of 9 years. In the…
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Blessing #11: Carol Linn, the Woman, Not the Child
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. This statement has never been truer than with my daughter…
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Blessing #10: Darling Dedo
My grandfather was the kindest, most self-assured man I have ever met. He loved his children…
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Blessing #9: Memories of the Matriarch
Baba Vicky was the strongest, sweetest, smartest person I have ever met. I would tell her…
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Blessings 5-8: My Closest Friends
I’ve always been a one-person friend. I may have had a number of girls I hung…
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Blessing #4: The Man, Not the Father
Blessings My father was a wonderful man, but a horrible father. Most of my childhood memories…
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Blessing #3: My Mother’s Heart
Everything I have learned about love came from my mother. Even when it doesn’t make a…
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Blessing #2: God Gave Me Nicole
Blessings I don’t regret my past. It’s made me who I am today. People are shocked when…
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32 Blessings and Blessing #1: Ian Is Alive and Well
Blessings To say my life has been difficult the last month is an understatement. In early…