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She Calls Her, “Doll”
This picture owns me! It is a 5 generation span of love captured in a brief visit to my most spectacular Granny. This is my precious grandmother and my sweet granddaughter. Avery loves Granny. When Granny talks to her, her whole face lights up and she immediately responds with her own version of chatter and…
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Margie Mays
American Idol season started last Sunday night. I have always loved AI. The excitement of average Joe or Jane making a life changing move to superstar not only makes for good tv, but it inspires hope of achieving your dreams. As I sat watching and waiting for the next tear jerking story to hit me…
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The Birthday Card
I have been watching Tidying Up with Marie Kondo lately. She is inspiring me to clear my space. I am not getting crazy with the clean up, but taking my time. I am cleaning out one space at a time following her method. In the KonMari method, you sort through papers. The ultimate goal is to…
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Lottie Moon: An Original International Women’s Day Hero
Today is International Women’s Day. The theme this year is #BalanceForBetter. The idea behind the theme is a gender-balance world is a better world. The first person I thought of for my blog post today was Lottie Moon. She was blazing trails for gender-balance before it was cool. She wasn’t even doing it for the…
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What is the cost of a gold tooth?
My brother and his little girl lived with us for a brief period of time. His little girl, Lilly, is my mini-me. She has lots of sass, a tiny filter, and her face can say more than her mouth which is a whole lot! One afternoon, she and I were sitting on the couch coloring.…
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I lost my dreams
About a year ago, I created a writer’s notebook. It contained all of my blog ideas, book ideas, to-do lists, etc. I called it my dream binder. It was exciting to have a place to write down my dreams. I worked extra hard making it cute, designing the cover, filling the pages, and putting my…
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I threw an axe today
Today started as an ordinary day. I got up, got ready, and joined a few of my favorite people for a couple of meetings. We were praying for one another and planning some great things for our church family and outreach. Before we left, our pastor told us to bring closed toe shoes for team…
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Risky Business
I have never thought of myself as much of a risk taker. I like good odds and playing it safe. My dad taught me to plan and to think. If you ask my children, my brother, or any other family member what quote we could attribute to my dad, it would be, “pay attention.” This…
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I’m Not Anxious, You’re Anxious
Philippians 4:6-7 Do not be anxious about anything … Monday morning, I got up and got ready for work. I was feeling a tad bit under the weather, so I thought I might go to the doc and get a quick shot to get me over this sinus crud then on to work. For the…
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What’s Wrong With People?
What’s wrong with people? This seems to be the theme of most social media posts this past week. Most of these posts are in response to the recent law in New York that basically says a baby has no rights until it makes it outside of the womb. Even though that baby could come at any point after 21 weeks and…
Christie Pickard 