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Entries from December 29th, 2005

A Christmas State of Mind

December 29th, 2005 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

You all know me. I’m just always in a “Christmas” state of mind, right?! Well, okay. Not all the time, but most. Well, except when I’m down in the gloom and doom frame of mind. Or in the pondering and wondering state of mind. Then there’s the “what on earth bad’s going to happen next” [...]

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In the Christmas Spirit

December 24th, 2005 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized

The Christmas spirit settled in my heart yesterday afternoon when I least expected it and I’m glad. All at once, the music, weather, thoughts and prayers of everyone for us, along with a good many Christmas email messages and blog comments, came together to lift my spirits for this unique and different holiday season. The [...]

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The Heart of Christmas – Decorating Decisions 2005

December 21st, 2005 · 19 Comments · Humor, Katrina, Philosophical, Reflections, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

Due to circumstances way beyond my control, my somewhat mixed feelings about the Christmas holidays to begin with (I hate crowds, materialism, etc.) have slid down to around Zero – zilch. If any of you have to ask why, go back and read some of my posts this entire year and maybe you’ll get a [...]

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Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers

December 17th, 2005 · 11 Comments · Uncategorized

Try saying that three times fast. I can’t even say it three times slow. I found that out last night when I was trying to tell Tom that was what I thought I needed most, perhaps for Christmas, if not sooner. He agreed after seeing the white racing stripes along each side of my new [...]

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Fly Through the Air With the Greatest Unease

December 13th, 2005 · 9 Comments · Uncategorized

(Note: On the lighter side for a change, and there always is one if we’ll search hard enough, here’s one of my favorite adventures while I was a journalist. It’s one I posted months and months back, but would like to share it again. Cheers!) The first week of June one year when I was [...]

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Today’s “Grace Note”

December 10th, 2005 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

I don’t know how many of you read “Grace Notes” regularly, but if you don’t, please start doing so. It is my dream, under God’s guidance, to build that blog into something special that we can, and will, all contribute to and share to encourage more and more people with our stories of grace shown [...]

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More Thoughts on Time, With Lagniappe

December 8th, 2005 · 11 Comments · Uncategorized

I’ve been thinking a lot about it the last 3 1/2 days and find it interesting and perhaps providential that my post last Friday was about time and how my views of it have changed over the years because my view of time has taken on a whole new dimension and meaning since Monday afternoon [...]

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