Category Archives: Relationships – Family, Friends & Other

Happy After Christmas & Before New Year Everyone!

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It’s the most … time of the year. Fill in the blank. Joyful? Stressful? Busy? Cold? Depressing? Exciting? I have read blog posts lamenting the sad passing of Christmas festivities. I can understand that. I too feel a touch of … Continue reading

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I have no gifts to bring

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  Christmas has always been a holiday I loved to celebrate. The lovely decorations – Christmas trees with twinkle lights and coloured glass ornaments, garlands festooned with pine cones and velvet ribbon, a hand-crafted nativity scene and lots of candles … Continue reading

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A Christmas story – of sorts

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“Helen, please try. Christmas is the perfect time to make things right.” She loved her husband but the idea of spending Christmas with her in-laws made her sick to her stomach. How could she share an amiable holiday meal with … Continue reading

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Christmas is coming…

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I have danced with dust and debris I have done the dirty laundry, Now I sit and write As the vacuum waits To make my home nice and clean. (To be read in lyrical cadence) Now you see why I … Continue reading

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Songs and Psalms and Stuff

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When I was 20, my family – parents, brother, sister and I – went ‘back to the old country’ for a visit. It was a joy to see my grandparents again, and we had some fun visiting relatives, especially my … Continue reading

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Sowing for a Harvest (Reblog)

As I read this thoughtful post by JD Blom, it reminded me of the universal reality of the law of sowing and reaping. You can’t expect an apple tree to grow oranges. You can’t be mean and miserable and expect … Continue reading

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Funeral (Themed Writing Contest Week 23)

She said she had to find out, and I agreed to help her. I was one of the guys who had loved her and left her. But when she could have told my secret and ruined me, she didn’t. And … Continue reading

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Liar, Liar

Are you an honest person? I like to think I am, and you probably do, too. How then do we account for the statistic – presented by Robert S. Feldman, PhD, author of “The Liar in Your Life” – that … Continue reading

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First Line Writing Contest: She blew in a day early

She blew in a day early. No big surprise; it was typical Trish. You’d think I would have learned by now – with Trish it paid to expect the unexpected. The problem was that there were usually two or three … Continue reading

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Themed Writing Contest: WISH

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Sipping air into bursting lungs, Lea sucked in her tummy and tugged at the zipper as she strained to pull it up. ‘It’s no use. There’s no way I can do these up!’ she thought. In the mirror, her midriff … Continue reading

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