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Wishing you a most blessed Easter.  Christ the Lord is risen today!  Hallelujah.

Physically, I haven’t felt like myself for the last couple of months.  That old familiar enemy, asthma, had reared its ugly head again and was making every activity I tried so much more difficult than it should have been.  Last week, after some long nights that I spent hooked up to a breathing machine and still couldn’t breathe properly, I …

When I was in third grade, I committed an act of literary subterfuge that my parents still don’t know about.  My mom had been reading “The Hiding Place” to our family, and by the second chapter, I knew there was no way I could wait for Mom to read chapters of this book to us, one by one.  Every paragraph …

Have I mentioned that I love Dr. Phil?  He has given me countless hours of free therapy over the years, though much of that therapy took a while to penetrate my thick head.  On Tuesday, he did a show featuring Demi Lovato, a young singer who is using her fame as a platform to talk about her ongoing recovery from …

Once upon a time, there was a little girl with long, brown braids, tiny freckles, and a big imagination.  She loved to sit in the tree in her family’s backyard and write poems about pigeons and squirrels.  Her soul was transported by birdsong, blue skies, books, and big dreams. She knew—she’d always known—that she was somehow strangely different from the …

Monty and I went to a Bon Jovi concert last night.  Bon Jovi songs have been the soundtrack of our life together since we were sixteen and listening to their cassette tapes in Monty’s car.  We know every word to every song, and over the years, we’ve spent a lot of time singing them at home and in the car—complete with vocals and some excellent air guitar…

In January, I wrote a blog post about the word I had chosen to guide me in goal-setting for the year.  The word I chose is “persist.”  I chose it in part because I liked the story of Elizabeth Warren in Congress being told to stop talking and refusing to do so.  Speaking of the incident, Senate Majority Leader Mitch …

I love words.  If I was stranded on a desert island, I’d want to have a Bible and a dictionary.  A dictionary would keep me entertained for days.  I love dictionaries because they provide definitions as well as etymologies—the meanings and origins of words.  I could look at the etymology of various words for hours if their origin is Greek …

Monty and I got a new couch a few weeks ago.  And since the day it was delivered, this has been the conversation in our house: In fairness to Mackin, it’s not completely his fault.  He’s our “special” cat—we love him dearly, but brains aren’t his long suit.  When he does something completely nonsensical like hiss at my polka dotted …