Low rise jeans

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I bought a pair of jeans for my birthday. Well, Tony bought them for me but I picked them out. I didn’t see any markings on the tag that indicated “low rise.” But sure enough, I got home, tried them on, they were. Yeah, no I don’t want to hear about how I didn’t try them on at the store. …

Santa Mouse is not real, and by the way, Merry Christmas

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Driving to church yesterday I thought I’d listen to a radio station that’s playing Christmas Carols. I tune in to hear a very smooth, tenor voice singing about Santa Mouse like Frank Sinatra singing a love song to Ava Gardner. “Santa Mouusse. Santa Mouuusse.” Who, I ask you, is Santa Mouse? The song was more than rediculous and I tried …

Yule logs, baking cookies and man, I’m tired

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Turning forty-four is like the Equator of age. Clearly, the middle of agedom. Double it and you’ve got eighty-eight. Another odd thing about forty-four is if you transpose the numbers, you still have forty-four. After this, I can’t transpose the numbers ’cause it only makes me older. Forty-five transposed is fifty-four. Up until Tuesday, I could have been thirty-four instead …

What I did on my Saturday Vacation

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OK, so it’s not really a vacation, Saturday. But it could be considered a mini-mini vacation at the end of the week. After getting my hair done this morning, I came home and read a good book. Yum. I started it a few days ago, but finished it this afternoon. Now that is a good day. Tony had a budget …

The Tree is Up

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The Christmas tree is up. Bryan Duncan sings from the stereo… “And everyone would have a friend, and right would always win, and love would never end. This is my grown up Christmas list…” I’m tired, hot and blurry eyed. We had a time with the tree lights this year. Picking the tree was easy. Found one we liked almost …

A Heart of Thankgiving

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It started this morning. I braved the scale. I did not gain weight! Amazing. A miracle. After all the Guate food. I felt for sure I’d put on ten pounds. But yeah, I’m didn’t! So, I took a long walk this morning, cleaned house, did laundry and edited today. Actually, today was a scene rewrite so that’s a little slower …

Random thoughts

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Did you hear about Breakup Babe getting a book deal with Random House just from her blog? Her blog! And here I am straining and planning, digging deep, thinking, praying, trying to come up with a new angle for my next story while editing an existing one I want to really shine. Add to that a testimony from a friend …

Dorothy was right, there’s no place like home

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Home! Wide, paved roads, air, carpet, real Diet Coke, my own bed, ability to flush toilet paper, my dogs & cat, Cassie and I talking until 3:00 a.m., ah, home. Santiago – Our time in Guatemala went very well. We shopped twice! The hardships of modern missionary life. We spent Monday and Tuesday up in Santiago where the people are …

Hola, desde Guatemala!

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It’s a beautiful Monday morning in Guatemala City. The weather is fantastic. Cool and breezy, sunny, like a fall day in Kentucky or Tennessee. But the tree leaves are still green and lucious. Chris says this is the dry season and soon everything will be brown. We arrived Friday and set up at the missions house. A very, very nice …