looking forward to silence…

The Wunderhusband and I are attending a silent spiritual retreat this coming weekend. We’ve never done anything like this before, and I can’t wait to see where 2 concentrated days of directed, disciplined meditation, prayer, and Scripture reading take us.
Has anyone else done a silent retreat? Do you have any tips that you wish you’d [...]

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A new addition…

no, I’m not pregnant. :)
As you all know, my much-loved Ford Focus, Ginger, is gone.   The wunderhusband and I have spent all weekend researching on Consumer Reports and on our Toyota dealer’s website. We have an awesome guy who helped us out last time we needed to get a vehicle–I highly recommend him. His name [...]

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When the stars converge…

or rather, when 4 of my most favorite things converge–the Wunderhusband, hydrangeas, swing dancing, and stars–it makes for a downright awesome anniversary trip!
Happy THIRD anniversary of marriage to US! :)
 Eeep. Three years married. That makes me sound old.
After a whirlwind 2  days in AZ (where my beautiful cousin got married and my best friend celebrated [...]

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a tiny piece of parenting…

I got to experience a miniscule but very moving bit of the parenting experience today. I was blessed enough to be able to spend time with the wuggies (who are heading out to Texas this week!) The wuggies are a pair of 3 year old boys (twins), and a 1.5 year old girl.
The day was [...]

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::happy sigh::

One lovely, fabulous, AWEsome characterstic of being in the artifical womb of higher education is that irreplaceable feeling of closure and accomplishment at the end of a quarter/semester. WOW…after 3 years in corporate-drone-land and 4 years working with a non-profit organization, I appreciate that feeling so much more. There’s just nothing else like it in [...]

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ok, SERiously…

It’s been 18 hours, and I’m still in shock. I have a VERY cool World Lit Professor right now (my fave class, of course). She’s young, yet well traveled, very well read, has an interesting global perspective on the world, etc….in other words, she’s unusally well-rounded for a literature person. Since she’s young, she’s really [...]

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to be grateful for…

just a list of things to be happy about, since there’s so much melancholy going around these days! No, the list is not in order of importance!! :)

friends…they make life liveable
family…irreplaceable, inspiring
God’s all-sustaining love…”the love that moves the sun & other stars”
free will & the power to change (I appreciate this more and more as [...]

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Sung to the Tune of “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead”

 “Ding Dong the Skunk is Gone 
…the wicked skunk, the stinky skunk….”  :) 
Thanks to our very good friend, Mr. W., we are the proud borrowers of a top-notch, non-lethal skunk trap. We baited and set the trap 2 nights ago, and about 4 hours later (when we’d given up hope that the skunk would be lured [...]

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wow

My mom just completed a daily chronicle of blessings, lasting TWO YEARS. She didn’t miss a single day, even when she had major surgery that put her in the hospital for 2 days.
OK, maybe that wasn’t clearly stated enough…I mean, this is MAJOR: my mom just wrote down at least one (usually more like 3-5) [...]

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CRAZINESS!

New Word for the Day: Invious
Definition: Untrodden. E.g., I hope the path my life takes is heretofore invious. : )
The last several days have been insane and heretofore in my life, quite invious. Where to begin? Let’s start with Vegas.
Yes indeed, I took my very first trip to Vegas just last weekend, and WHAT A [...]

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