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All my life I’ve loved and read books about fantasy worlds with characters as real to me as myself. I’ve read with breathless anticipation as they’ve gone through trials and struggles, were misunderstood, overcame outrageous obstacles or prejudice and triumphed, always triumphed in the end. I know the pattern, I expect the happy ending, I […]
Today I’m obsessed and so tempted to buy a skirt. In general, I avoid going to malls, but I needed to today and couldn’t resist checking out a local boutique named Rosey’s, which I had never visited before. I tried on quite a few attractive items, but the black tiered tulle floor-length ruffle skirt caught […]
…the Denver area is to hailstorms what Florida is to hurricanes.
5/22/2012 ~ My firstborn child, Caleb, is preparing to go to college this fall. Graduation is right around the corner, after prom and finals and AP exams and all the other small tasks and checklist items that make up a senior year in high school. As I graduated from high school, way back when, […]
Rise early, before the lilac dawn condenses into the crystalline dew splattering your toes…
I don’t always recognize why right away, but I get a little melancholy around Easter time, a physical response initially without conscious awareness. I know it’s supposed to be a time of joy, a time of hope, a time to celebrate that our Savior was resurrected and offers us that possibility too, but the sorrow […]
I long for a little sunshine and warm weather in the dead of winter as I layer up with sweaters and cozy clothing. When the weather starts to turn warm; however, I am not content. I become restless. Spring is a time of growth, new life, awakenings, rebirth, and I look at my clothes with […]
What do spheres, Archimedes, calculus, The Simpsons, physics, Star Trek, pyramids, and Carl Sagan’s novel Contact all have in common? Pi, otherwise known as 3.14… Pi is the exact ratio representing that the circumference of a circle is slightly more than three times as long as its diameter. One of the oldest and most important […]
The sore spot in my throat has progressed the way of all the colds I get… sinus congestion, cough and laryngitis. As of right now I have no voice to speak of (pun intended). My husband has been out of town for the week, it’s cold outside, the house is a mess, the kids don’t […]
How did an early Christian blessing and distributing of candles day, known as Candlemas, switch to a day for a groundhog to predict the weather? Apparently February 2 is considered the middle of winter. Since people were hoping that the last half of winter would be short, they received candles blessed by priests and […]