Tag: Mother
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Then I Was…Wishing I had an Auto Chef
I love books. One series I enjoy takes place in the late 2050’s and 2060’s. The books were written in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, so it’s always interesting to see how the author chose to depict the future. If we compare the world in 2025 with this future world – sometimes we come…
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Then I was…thinking about rites of passage
This past weekend was my middle son, Mitchell’s, bachelor party weekend. Brennan and his oldest brother, Seth, are Mitch’s best men, so they took the reins on planning. Needless to say, I’ve never been to a bachelor party, but I’ve heard about a few. When I got married, many moons ago, my soon-to-be husband came…
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Then I was…thinking about classic American literature.
If you have had a chance to read Brennan’s bio on the What We’re Reading page, you know that he has been on a mission to read “the classics” of American literature. Honestly, he’s read books that I never did. I wasn’t much of a reader when I was a kid, I much preferred to…
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Then I was… Buying a coffee at my locally owned café
This morning, I went on a walk around my neighborhood, as I do. I love morning walks. At the tail-end of my walk, I decided to hit up my local coffee shop, Sense of Place Café. Sense of Place is a locally owned coffee shop, and I frequently visit there before starting work on weekdays.…
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Then I was…on a different continent!
I recently had the amazing good fortune to visit Paris, France (yea, well, I could have meant Texas…) and Tunis, Tunisia for ten days. What an adventure! I saw things I’d read about in books and magazines for years – IRL – and things I never even imagined too. Paris was, honestly, not a city…
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Then I was… Curious about humanity’s well-being in the 21st century (A series)
In the past ~120 years, humanity has undergone more change than it had from the birth of Jesus ’til the Industrial Revolution. Take a second to contemplate how this idea functions in your own life. Every day, we humans communicate with one another. We need to communicate with each other to make plans for the…
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Then I was…unplugging for a weekend
A couple of weekends past, I traveled to wild, wonderful, West Virginia with 5 of my good friends. We stayed at a cabin in the woods, ate, drank, played games, talked, hiked, and had a wonderful time. It had been a while since I was away with a group of my peers. Hanging out with…
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Then I was…contemplating freedom.
Although I’ve been trying to spend less time looking at social media – these days, specifically Twitter – the crisis in Ukraine has had me glued to my phone for the past week. Every morning now I check to see if Kyiv made it through the night without falling into Russia’s grasp, and I am…
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Then I was… enjoying a Monday??
I know it’s hard to imagine, but this week, on Monday, my office was buzzing with energy. Not ever having been a big fan of Mondays, I really noted the change in atmosphere, and numerous of my coworkers commented on it too. We’re all normally attached to a caffeine drip on Mondays, so it was…
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