Tag Archives: Writing

Learning to Keep My Mouth Shut – Asking Your Advice

Posted on March 17, 2018 by

My confession: I am a reformed horrible speller and still struggle with grammar and syntax. I have improved a great deal, but I am still very conscious of those liabilities. I have worked hard over the years to overcome those … Continue reading →

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When You Can’t Fix It, It Won’t Go Away, and Some Days it is Crushingly Painful

Posted on February 6, 2017 by

  Despite what other people’s lives look like on the surface, I would say that probably all of us, at some time or another have been overwhelmed by fear, loneliness, pain, sorrow, or loss that is so overwhelming we don’t … Continue reading →

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In time of trial: On Hobbits and Narnians

Posted on March 20, 2016 by

I started writing this post prior to Christmas when the recent events in Paris and California reminded me that we do not live in tranquil times. Life intervened and I hadn’t the time to finish it. Since then there have … Continue reading →

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A Rebel in the Wrong Century

Posted on October 1, 2015 by

In a season colored by my impatience with job and debt, and frustration with the quick passing of the nano seconds between receiving my paycheck and applying it to digging out from under, I take time every day to give … Continue reading →

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