“{A mother} discovers with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Are you or were you friends with your…
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“Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who’ll love you…
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Mom,
The other day, I walked into Big Girl’s classroom to pick her up and there you were. You were seated in one of those tiny Kindergarten chairs, clutching your big black purse, and my girl was sitting there next…
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I learned something yesterday. Something I already knew, but seem to forget. I learned that it can be really rewarding to tell a truth. I am not talking about the truth, that elusive, Platonic thing we are all implored to…
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Okay. So it’s officially official: I love doing these Friday Loves. I’m not sure why. It’s something about the show and tell, the sharing and caring, the hunting and gathering, the reveling in things silly and serious, goodies physical and…
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Over Labor Day weekend, we attended my cousin’s wedding in Kansas. In a rather surprising and wonderful turn, my cousin asked Mom to conduct the ceremony. I know Mom was caught off guard by this honor, but ultimately flattered and…
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Where does beauty come from? When do we first become acquainted with this concept? When does it come to dominate our decisions and our visions, or does it? Do some of us escape concerns about being beautiful and having beautiful…
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“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” -Thucydides
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” -Mahatma Gandhi
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”…
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“Independence is happiness.” – Susan B. Anthony
“Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.” – Abraham Lincoln
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to…
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