Category: Gratitude
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Blue Christmas?
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What to do with melancholy at Christmastime? For lots of people, this is thankfully not a problem. For lots of people, unfortunately it is. And for any number of reasons…
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Liebster Award Nomination for Story Crossings!
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Y’ learn something new every day! I’d never heard of the Liebster Award until I got nominated this past week – what a nice thing to learn about! Person-to person, blogger-to-blogger, “tag, you’re it” and pay it forward!
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Two Memorial Day Connections: A Memory and a Book
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Finally, after the whirlwind nuthouse of the challenging-yet-satisfying A-to-Z Daily Blogging in April, I’ve recovered to where I’m now starting my attempt at weekly blogging…Onward! 1 – My favorite Memorial Day parade memory – May 31, 1982: We were living in Dubuque, Iowa with our 2-and-a-half-year-old son, Marco. We lived…
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Nana Tells Stories…
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We sat cross-legged on the backyard sidewalk, under the fig tree, face to face. I’d read loads of books to her in her first 3 years, learning how to hold one up to my laptop’s camera in Colorado for her to see the pictures in California, then pull it back…
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Gratitude, Gratefulness…Great Fullness!
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“My dad traveled a lot when I was a little girl; he was an insurance agent for Employers Mutual of Wausau (Wisconsin). He missed several birthdays, school programs, etc. – but never ever ever felt like an ‘absent father.’ When he was home there was full presence and love and…