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Continue reading →: I think I can I think I can I think I can
Today is the 16th anniversary of the September 11th attacks and the 16th anniversary of my first shift as a registered nurse. I think its fitting that today is my first day of “class” in my online RN to BSN program at Grand Canyon University. I completed my virtual classroom…
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Continue reading →: Around the house and Charlottesville
Current happenings: 1) Today is my first day of unscheduled activity since July 1st. I napped. Read a book for leisure. And went to the gym late. 2) Yesterday I received a $2000 scholarship from the Sun Health Foundation for use towards my Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing. I’m very…
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Continue reading →: the good stuff
I’ve been mostly offline for the past 10 days while at Sierra Bible Camp with my sister, her family and my boys. But we’re home now, back in the groove of booking faces and hashing tags (as Mister Brown would say), and accessing the world wide web between loads of…
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Continue reading →: eyes on the Author- the every morning struggle to walk by faith
I don’t wake up full of vision and motivation. Actually, what motivates me most is the idea that my french press and single-origin coffee from Guatemala are just minutes away from awaking my senses with it’s warm, toasty aroma. And on those days when I get my stiff, puffy-eyed body…
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Continue reading →: post anesthesia thoughts
(has nothing to do with the post, just a pretty pic i took a long time ago) I’m not going to over think this post too much. I had minor surgery today and am still feeling drunk on leftover anesthesia/fentanyl/percocet. Consider yourself and the three other people reading this warned.…
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Continue reading →: 3 lessons from a seminary podcast
I did a lot of driving yesterday and today. The German Shepherd we rescued late last year was scheduled for neutering today in east Mesa, about an hour and 15 minutes of heavy traffic metropolis driving away. Driving on a six lane highway through Phoenix in 112 degree weather is…
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Continue reading →: Memorial Day: Remembering when you don’t remember
(photo credit) I’m a generation X-er. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the Shock and Awe headlines of March 2003, are the acts of war I remember. And as close to home as the 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan have been to me,…
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Continue reading →: Sunday Thoughts
I want to be a better writer. I’ve decided to challenge myself to a series of writing prompts, which I plan to post here. Writing for me is a way to digest life. Reading what others have written is like going out to dinner. Journaling is like making my…
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Continue reading →: confessions and desires of a world-digesting writer/eater cell
Merriam-Webster defines a writer as: (noun) One that writes. Big shocker. I’ve been writing, well since I was about 5. First just letters, then short, three word sentences without punctuation, then onto complete sentences and paragraphs. By seventh grade when I had Mrs. Spicer for English I was writing essays…
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Continue reading →: thoughts from a Mother’s Day Sunday
Yesterday being Mother’s Day, me being a mom and a having a mom and knowing moms and women who long to be moms and/or grieve the loss of their children, it was a day full of thoughts turned prayers. Yesterday also being the last Sunday in a series on marriage…
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