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Unplugging…Temporarily

To my dear friends and readers…
 
I’m about to embark on a long anticipated vacation.  I’ll be beachin’ it for two weeks with my family: the “Slater 5″, parents, sister, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.
 
I. can. not. wait.
 
There will be lots of reading, sleeping, coffee drinking, coffee talking, beach walking, ocean diving, and seafood eating.  There will [...]

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I was two seconds away from hitting delete and completely doing away with my blog this week.  Then, my dear husband sent me this article written by Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishing.  I read it.  It was timely.  I needed a good reminder that, sometimes, I have to go back to the reason and [...]

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Friday’s Free Advice

I had a few ideas for my Friday’s Free Advice floating around this mushy brain of mine yesterday (the end of the school year has this kind of effect on me).  I thought about tackling the ups and downs of transition (because I am in the middle of transition right now – going from rigid routine to [...]

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Culture Shock

I’m a mom, and I blog, but I wouldn’t call myself a “mom blogger”.
 
About three years ago, a friend of mine shared a little secret with me.  Her secret?  She had started a blog.  (I vaguely remembered another friend, several years prior to that, telling me the same thing, although I believe she had referred to [...]

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A Zest For Something

We don’t get out very much.  This became even more apparent to me when I was stuck in the middle of a conversation revolving around the most recent films to hit theaters.  The women were chatting it up about The Blind Side, It’s Complicated and a host of other grown up movie treats.  Subsequently they [...]

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I’m a crazy woman.  Being the “tech-novice” that I am – and by “tech-novice” I mean a person who lives in a constant state of fear that I am one keystroke away from crashing my computer – decided that not only would I start blogging, but I would also purchase and host my own domain.  [...]

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Blogging

I said there was no way I would ever succomb to the ever popular world of blogging. My husband has a saying that blogging is for people who think the world wants to hear what they think and say just as much as they like to share it.
Then my husband went to a conference for [...]

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