When You Feel Abandoned
Have you ever felt like you’ve been abandoned? Sure that no one gave a rip about you Convinced you didn’t belong Unloved On your own…
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Inside Out- A Movie Review
I am one of the few people in the world who does not like movies. After too many times of feeling trapped in the middle of a packed theater watching something I didn’t want to watch, I finally decided I couldn’t trust that a moviemaker will take me somewhere I want to go. So, I don’t watch
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10 Things to Say When Someone is Crying
Tears streamed down the little ballplayer’s face and his shoulders shook as he sat, dejected in the dugout. He had failed to hit the ball again. His dad/coach marched into the dugout. “There will be no crying on the ball field, do you understand me? No crying! You are not a baby!” The boy buried
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Neighborhood Kids & the Danger of an Open-Door Policy
It’s dangerous to have an open-door policy. Not to mention messy. I spy a pair of dirty, yellow socks under the couch in the living room and pop them into the washing machine with another load of clothes, then set a lonely tennis shoe on the front porch and pick up the granola bar wrappers
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A Song from a Dad to His Boys
I communicate love to my boys by giving them a hug. My husband, Brian, communicates love to our boys by writing them an epic song.
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What I Learned in Evansville
For the life of me, I can’t remember my friend’s birthdays. Last Friday morning, just before I left to teach at a women’s retreat, I texted a dear friend in town to say, “I want to bring you one of my LOVED shirts so you can wear it and feel loved all day long on your birthday!”
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Munchkin: To Be or Not to Be?
I hate sharing disappointing news with my kids, especially when they’ve worked hard and have their hearts set on a dream. I suppose that’s why the American Idol folks have fun with singers who did get through to the next round by prefacing the news with something like, “You’ve got a lot of tough competition here, and we
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The Evolution of Camping
Long ago we were courageous hunters and diligent gatherers. We slept in caves at night and walked the land in the day. And then we had a brilliant idea. What if we created a shelter outside of the cave that wouldn’t limit us to cave-dwelling? So we created make-shift tents out of wooden poles and
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Not Just a Blanket
It’s just a blanket, given to him by a friend. But my 7-year old wants it with him as we drive to the hospital in the early morning hours while it’s still dark outside. It’s soft, made of fleece and soccer balls- the sport my son was playing when he broke his leg last week. It’s a
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You Try Being a Voiceover Artist- and a Mom
As you probably know, having a career and being a parent has its challenges. Yesterday, my 10-year old son and our 7-year old friend, and I went to the Word studios on Music Row in downtown Nashville to record character voices for an upcoming Christmas musical I just finished writing for Word. (Other people wrote
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