Respect and acceptance do not require official documents, summit meetings, or highly evolved symposiums to discuss matters at hand. Sometimes a room in a building’s lower level with participants gathered around a large table, some sporting beverages or maybe a…
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Still remembering and celebrating St. Bernard’s Grade School
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Memories are highly personal, and individuals often recall the same event with considerably different details. Ask siblings who grew up in the same household with the same parents and based on their childhood memories, it’s as though some of them…
Serendipity: Congratulations Newlyweds!
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Weddings are not exactly common events in our family. Not because we don’t believe in marriage because collectively we’ve accrued considerable time living “happily ever after.” It’s simply because our extended family is very small with few potential brides and…
Exploring Options and Transitions
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Methodist Encore! programs are informative, entertaining, enlightening, and designed particularly with active seniors in mind. In their winter/spring booklet, the cover article refers to some of the inevitable changes in mind and body as years go by. “Although some of these…
Technology Can Reinforce Teaching
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Math was a rather comfortable and interesting subject until I entered high school. Solving the unknown in Algebra, most of Algebra’s content was unknown to me, and plane and solid geometry caused me unbelievable anxiety. But my friend, Michelle (Davis)…
An Ardent Fan of Spring-time!
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Ah, April, I’ve waited a long time for your arrival. Right after the New Year makes its debut, I’m ready for you! Sunshine, flowers pushing through the ground, the greening of the grass, even the outside air is fragrant when…
Grammie’s Words of Wisdom and Love
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Dear Jensen Reed, When you are old enough to understand, I will tell you of the absolute joy that greeted your early arrival January 27th. Literally hundreds of people have prayed for you, my dear grandson, even before you were…
I Can Do Anything!
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Adjectives describing Jennifer Hawkins include amazing, incredible, confident, inspiring and a host of others. Jen, as she prefers to be called, is a 24-year-old who goes about each day doing what many people do: living independently, going to work, visiting…
Welcome to the family, Susanne and Julien
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Initially it was a typical phone call as we talked about family happenings. But the excitement in his voice told me he’d met a girl. More precisely a woman, but even when a son is 37, to his Mom, he’s…
Serendipity: January beckons with a new month and year
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Stores open, prices slashed, bonus dollars, later hours, payment plans, never better offers, and the hype continues from late summer through December. Before sales, after sales, lowest prices ever, and while we’re still celebrating one season, we’re shoved into the…