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Hail Mary!
I’m from State College, Pennsylvania home to the Penn State Nittany Lions. My parents met at Penn State and because they loved their community, they settled in, had four kids and never left. Growing up there, a love for college football was a given and that love has stuck with me ever since. If you could care less about football,…
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Look at the Birds
When our plans to visit Europe were nixed for the third time, Doug suggested a road trip to Texas. Not exactly a satisfying alternative, but with his retirement coming into view (in the next decade anyway), and Ian completely idle, our lemonade making excursion would be part exploratory and part escape. Becca’s college experience at Baylor was our first…
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Getting Back up Again.
Darn it, it happened again. Discouraged by recent events in my family, I have gone dark and found myself wandering in the wilderness. Aware that I’m bad company, I’ve spent lots of time alone in a place of dissonance. A place where I’ve allowed my feelings to rule the day, knowing they conflict with the truth. It has felt as…
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Just as You Are
Remember my last published article Wonderstruck and the news of Ian’s new amazing job? Remember my honest confession of my guarded heart waiting for the other shoe to drop? Well, that other shoe did drop. After less than three full weeks, Ian lost his job. And no… I’m not kidding. We are gutted and still processing it all. And Ian…well…is humbled…
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WONDERSTRUCK
The first time I went scuba diving I was AWESTRUCK. Suspended at thirty feet below the water’s surface and not more than twelve inches away, I was transfixed by an extraordinarily beautiful puffer fish. The moment its neon eyes met mine, he puffed himself out showing off every exquisite detail of his spiky and colorful girth. Another World…
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