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Avoiding New Material

In late August 2015, I stopped reading new books.  I couldn’t do anything, really.  I had learned that my baby, at 20 weeks of pregnancy, was measuring way too small.  After initially feeling confused and a bit scared in the doctor’s office, waiting for test results and the
Oct 23, 2017 2 min read
Sacred Love
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Sacred Love

“In all this world, there is no love for you like mine.”  -Maya Angelou Reading has always been important to our family.  We read to our babies from infancy.  We have reading time every single night.  Bookshelves fill our rooms and words fill our children with wonder, transporting them to
Aug 26, 2017 2 min read
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Making Soup

From a kids’ book called Tear Soup by Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen: The next morning as Grandy was cleaning up, Chester asked her if she was done making tear soup. “Well, I don’t think you actually ever finish.  The hard work of making this batch of soup is
Aug 31, 2016 2 min read
A Changed World
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A Changed World

“I was living in a rainforest.  I knew the trees and the frogs, the lush green life.  With no warning, I got shoved into the desert.  I know this is the desert.  So take back your plastic palm trees and your cups of water; quit telling me it’s the
Mar 2, 2016 3 min read
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