Category: Life Lessons
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What Marriage Is
As my second wedding anniversary approached my head was flooded with thoughts. I knew I wanted to write something, but wasn’t set on a direction. I could easily write something incredibly mushy or a monologue of sarcasm, woven with humor. However, going solely in either direction didn’t settle right for me. Then, I thought about…
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The Days I have to be Quiet
I’m terrible at being quiet. Actually, I’m incredible at being quiet. I can go hours without feeling the need to mutter a word, I can stealthily slink around our home and farm so silently My Someone is constantly hollaring out to find me when I’m in the next room. We have a tiny home, friends,…
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For the Love of Habaneros
I have a lot of “I told you so moments” happen in my life, I can be a little bit of a quiet know-it-all and as it goes with any form of know-it-all, when the moments of being wrong come hither, they come hither strong. A couple of months ago, My Someone and I were…
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Searching for Simplicity
Every blog, social media training/seminar I’ve attended says “do not apologize for long absences of non blogging.” But, on the other hand I’m a chronic over apologizer… Who is needing a Segway to jump back into the blogging game. The last few months have been a lot. A new job. Discovering I couldn’t balance the…
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Till the Cows Come Home to Double Dan Ranch
*Confession* Referring to my husband as a “farmer” is incredibly awkward to me. He raises livestock, not crops, so in my mind and probably most everyone’s west of the Mississippi he qualifies as a rancher. On the other hand, my husband finds it incredibly awkward when I refer to him and his parents as ranchers…
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Silver Lining
“Oklahoma is the heart, it’s the vital organ, of our national existence.” – Will Rogers, 29 May 1926 Over 50 tornadoes touched down in my home state yesterday. Lives were lost, many were injured. Sometimes there just aren’t words to say what you want to say. As I spent, my afternoon yesterday glued to the…
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Prayer on Planes
Last Thursday evening I anxiously waited to board a Southwest plane headed to Louisville. Mind completely focused on getting to the person who would be waiting there to pick me up, I wasn’t prepared for the life lesson in store for me. My flight was overbooked. “Can we have volunteers to move to a later…
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