Category: Humor
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What More Could You Want Than Text and Audio From Your Favorite Blogger?
Would I like to create a podcast of my published blog posts? Is that even a thing? Yup. The real question is this: Will anyone listen?
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A Book Review: Farm to Film
Farm to Film is not a collection of photographs but, rather, a collection of moments, captured by a camera and then transferred into beautiful watercolors.
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Things That Go ‘Boo’ in The Night — Or Day
My husband’s attempts to scare me are sometimes downright inappropriate. This time, I told my husband, I was taking my response to the next level…
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It’s All Fun and Games Until Your DIY Project Goes Up in Smoke
We feel a certain pride when we’re able to fix something ourselves and save money doing it. But sometimes DIY isn’t the best option. Then what do you do?
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What Do You Do With a Birthday Gift? Use It Well
I recognize that I am blessed — and not always using my gifts. my health, my wholeness to their full extent. Are you?
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Anticipating the First Day of School? Your Teacher Is, Too
And she wants an ideal year — just like you This week’s blog post will take you out of my personal blog site to Medium.com, where I usually cross-post what I write here first. I had to do it in reverse this week because I wrote this week’s blog for the Medium Writers Challenge. The […]
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My Reward for Suffering Poor Customer Service? A Promise of Less Service
I waited more than an hour for my doctor alone in an examining room before I decided I’d waited long enough. I opened the door to find the entire office vacant. What?
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Back When I First Taught Book Publishing, I Tried It Myself First
When I taught writing to a group of 20 homeschoolers, our final project was to write and illustrate our own books. Because those who teach also must do, I did my own. This is my first book — about my experience with laser surgery. It was a funny, painful experience.
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Dear Reader, Why in the World Do You Read My Blog Posts?
Sometimes — like my cat — we do our duty but miss our target. Sometimes it truly stinks. Keep trying and adjust your aim.
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How Writing a Book Is Like Birthing a Baby at 90
I am avoiding my Isaac. That’s the working title for my first novel. Why Isaac? Indeed. Why not Ishmael?
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Obstacles Can Confirm You’re on the Right Path
I had wanted to attend that virtual retreat. I felt doing so was to protect the call of God in my life. I think Satan thought so too – and so he did everything in his power to prevent me from attending.
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Is Multitasking Sapping Your Spiritual Strength?
It definitely affected mine I had been going about the business of writing all wrong, and it took a confrontation by God to set me straight. My conversation with Him went something like this: “Do you remember that you kept waking up earlier and earlier TO SPEND TIME WITH ME — and then, instead, you […]
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What Not to Do When You Host a Virtual Event
“All this for a virtual event!” my wonderful marketing assistant had said it best a week before. She had gazed at her once-sparse office now loaded with box after box.
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Just Above the ‘Window to the Soul’ Is the Truth Teller
Your eyebrows are telling your secrets. Unfortunately, taming them so they don’t tell all requires time and talent and too much cash.
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The Students Have Returned! This Is How I Know
Traffic! COVID’s shutdown of schools lulled me into thinking my commute could be quick and easy. “Normal” traffic patterns are returning with the students. I’m positive.
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BFF May Not Mean What You Think It Does
If your best friend is a blogger, that is I was sitting in the back seat of Pamela’s navy blue Toyota Camry, peering out the window with as much intensity as a bus tour participant trying to memorize once-in-a-lifetime scenes passing at the low speed the windy residential road required. It was my second trip riding […]
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If You Haven’t Been Tested Yet You Need to Know How Awful it Feels
I’m negative. I’m also negative about wanting another swab. In order to return to work, every employee in my enormous workplace has to be tested for COVID-19. You and I both know that such a test will show only if we are positive or negative for the virus at the time of testing. Usually correctly. […]
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How Do I Report Sexual Harassment During COVID-19?
It’s just one of the many perils of working from home My husband is retired. COVID-19 has forced me to work from home. Translation: I am at home with him all day every day. Trying to work from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. He walks into my office (the dining room) without invitation. He passes by me […]
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