With all the buzz around losing weight this time of year, it’s pretty easy to get dissapointed with the state of your body. Those holiday meals catch up quickly and you vow, VOW, to run/train/stretch/drink water. Right?
Or is that just me?
I realized in a fevered hurry, I’ve jumped the gun a bit. I do, in [...]

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It wasn’t until I sat down to beg you all for help that the severity of what’s going on in the flood zones really hit me and I started bawling. If you want to understand why, go watch this video from the Lewis County Chronicle website. I really need your help everybody.
I spent [...]

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I’m going to post about something that hits close to home - an event that happened in Seattle a few weeks ago with a door-to-door magazine salesman. I just received an email forward written by the victim of this attack. It’s been passed through many friends of friends of friends but it brings it a [...]

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Somehow a post about Bible camp turned into a conversation of lawsuits against school systems…. Which reminded me of this story.
A lawsuit arose in Idaho after school officials scrubbed face paint off of two kids in junior high. It seems that the school officials used rubbing alcohol, fingernail polish remover, and industrial cleaner. On the [...]

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Now I’ve seen it all.
Just read this article about a Chinese couple who were “seeking a distinctive and modern name for their child” when they tried to name their baby the ‘at’ symbol.  That’s right, a kid called @.
I can just imagine that poor kid trying to have a phone conversation wherein he tries to [...]

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Lately my husband and I are realizing that having one child is hard. I’m sure that having two or more children has its own unique issues. But here’s the thing about having just one: YOU (the parents) are the playmates. All day, every day, we are bombarded with demands to play:

“Mom, you be Zurg and [...]

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