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Feb 13, 2012
Book Club: Deeper
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In the first chapter of our reading from David Brooks’ The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement this week we read about Erica’s successful rise to CEO of the... Read More + |
Jan 13, 2012
Photoplay: Budgeting Relationship in 2012
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One of my business goals in 2012 is to invest more in clients and fellow vendors. As I build relationships in my work, I'm learning that relationship is a currency I can't afford to ignore,... Read More + |
Nov 30, 2011
Community Post: The Last Thing I'd Ever Write
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I couldn't stop thinking about the note Robert penned on the arm rest of his car when he waited to be found. What would I tell my family? What would I say if I could never say anything more?... Read More + |
Oct 19, 2011
Community Writing Project: Before They're Forgotten
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On visits to my grandma’s house, I would curl up on the wooden bench under the carport and listen as my aunts, uncles and older cousins told stories—family stories about people like Uncle Al,... Read More + |
Oct 12, 2011
Zdravo Means Hello
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“Zdravo!” Jenny* calls to me from across the downtown Houston café where she and her friends are cooling off with iced coffees. She’s tall and strong and wears a patterned scarf around her... Read More + |
Jul 20, 2011
What Peels Life Back
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On the way to her tonsillectomy, we laugh, she and I, talk of what flavor of ice cream she’d most like afterwards, when it’s all finished and she’s home, what books I might read aloud to her,... Read More + |
Apr 13, 2011
Community Post: Keeping Score
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Lydia Will observes her children squabbling over issues of fairness. In the midst of the quarreling, she discovers how we adults often do the same thing: tallying up wrongs instead of loving the... Read More + |
Mar 30, 2011
A Good Roommate is Hard to Find
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When a friend of mine told me a year ago that she knew a girl I'd love and who reminded her of me, I brushed it off. I love nearly everyone I meet—even people who are annoyingly like me. But... Read More + |
Dec 22, 2010
Do We Need to Be Here?
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"Thank you for sharing this video clip," said a Simple Country Girl. "It's very timely, as I am going though a murky bit and wondering if I ‘need’ to be out here in cyberspace. Does anyone else... Read More + |
Nov 24, 2010
Mother of Nineteen
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Susanna Wesley bore 19 children—including John, who founded the Methodist Church. Her husband was often absent—and at times her only means to pray privately was to cover her head with her... Read More + |
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During the past several days, I have been reflecting on various implications of a passage in Ezekiel 41 in which God reveals his plans for beautiful decorations of the temple in Jerusalem. I began... Read More +
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