Tag: “throwback podcast”
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The Final Shade of Death: She Doesn’t Have Alzheimer’s Anymore!
The eulogy for my mother — but, more important, why the final “shade of death” from Alzheimer’s is joyous for believers in Jesus.
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Shades of Death: When You Lose a Loved One to Alzheimer’s Disease
When you lose someone by Alzheimer’s, you lose her progressively. Both you and the one you love experience shades of death.
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We Returned to the River Without Him and It Hurt So Good
It’s difficult to return to a favorite spot you’d always shared with someone you loved but is gone. But this year we returned to the river — and the missing was good.
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Their Chance to Shine Was This Teacher’s Time to Grade Myself
As the high school English teacher, I lead seniors through their Capstone Projects, a graduation requirement. But their achievement makes me see myself in a different light.
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When We Finally Met Face to Face, It Was a Little Piece of Heaven
She was someone I’d gotten to know in my online classes. We finally met in person, and it reminded me how much we can look forward to seeing God one day.
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This Is How to Be a Winner Even When You Lose
The definition of winning is much broader than the number on a visible or unseen scoreboard. What’s more, Charlie Sheen is NOT the epitome of the term
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When You Have the Urge, This Is the Best Splurge of All
Sometimes the moments we steal from work or all those “shoulds” and “to dos” cluttering our minds are the best splurges of all.
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Hoodie = hoodlum?
The blogger explores the role fashion played in the death of Trayvon Martin, a teen wearing a hoodie shot by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman in March 2012.
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Is Honesty or Timely Honesty the Best Policy?
Sometimes truth doesn’t need to be spoken in the moment. Maybe it needs to be spoken after the moment — and my anger or frustration — has passed.
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Freaky Friday…
My Freaky Friday involves a series of unfortunate events during which two varsity baseball teams exchange playing skills. That was just the beginning of crazy.
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Despite My Best Efforts, I Wasn’t Prepared for This
To calm me and them, I began the class with prayer, and I’m pretty sure God took over from there.
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STuCK…
It’s as if my inner self is rebelling against the busyness and the demands of life–that, by the way, haven’t ceased. But with an extra day “off” (read that: teacher work day at home) and my graduate studies ended for the semester (whew! just in time for baseball season in full swing), I find that […]
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Not so “over it”…
I’ve always been challenged to “say what I mean and mean what I say,” but, clearly, I am not living up to that challenge. Despite my best intentions to not use the current lingo in my speech (after all, I am a proper English teacher), I find myself using “I’m over it!” far too often. […]
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Competitive nature…
My first thought? “Lalla, you’re killing me!” Two weeks of being sick, preceded by my daughter’s wedding, had left me feeling the need to accomplish just the bare minimum (quality, it goes without saying, but nothing in excess). Plus, the assignment was annotations–not exactly a Prezi or other multimedia artifact or even an inspiring paper. […]
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Deep offerings
I think the “Little Drummer Boy” had it right. The Christmas song tells the story about a little boy who comes before the Baby Jesus, realizing that he has no gift fit to give a King, no frankincense, gold, or myrrh–or the like. And so he decides to do the best thing he can–play for […]
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Speechless…
When a teacher has laryngitis but has to teach anyway, what is she to do? This is a day in my life — with an inkling of what to do and what NOT to do!
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FAT enough?
So a few days ago, I got an email (not personal, mind you, at least I don’t think so…) from my health club, informing me of a talk being given today by Dr. Ellington Darden about his X-Force weight-loss study. (The main center of the health club has been all astir about the new X-Force machines […]
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‘That’s what friends are for…’
They say ‘a friend in need is a friend indeed,’ but I say my friends are the ones who showed up when I had a need. This is my story.
All Things Work Together 