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I wasn’t going to write a blog post tonight.  But sometimes the Spirit moves me unexpectedly, and I MOVE.  This afternoon, I heard a song I’ve never heard before.  A song that kept me spellbound because it so aptly described how I feel.  The song is called “I Get to Love You.” As I listened to it, I thought about …

My parents are in Hawaii, celebrating their 48th anniversary.  And I’m not embarrassed to say that I miss them.  We spend so much of our lives together that it’s strange when they’re gone.  I’ve mentioned before that my mom likes the song, “Ice, Ice Baby.”  And she loves it when Monty and I rap along with it.  Since I miss …

I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook.  I hate the negativity on Facebook—the nasty political posts, the mean-spirited people who make hateful comments just for the fun of it, and the way some people use it as a weapon to post not-so-cryptic messages about their “friends.”  But I love the connections that Facebook gives me—to new friends, old friends, and …

When my family took road trips, my favorite part of the day was when we got near a city, where there were miles of billboards.  I loved them because they gave me some reading material, but also because they advertised so many exotic things to do, always with a liberal dose of exclamation points—Dinosaur Museum!  World’s Largest Ball of Twine!  …

In the past few weeks, I’ve written a few blog posts that I called “LBOT2.”  If you missed those posts, here’s the story behind the title:  When I was growing up, my mom often made meals out of leftovers—not just leftovers from the night before, but from a few different meals.  My dad, a lover of acronyms, called these meals …

When I was ten, my little brother Adam and I found a “secret” hideout near a bike path that we rode on every day in the summer.  To get to our hideout, we left the bike path, crossed a little bridge, and waded through patches of tall, marshy grass until we got to the bank of a creek.  We were …