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Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day!
Rich and I plant zucchini every year. It's the one crop we always know will produce. Every year, regardless of where we live, the type of...
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Tell an Old Joke Day!
Rich loves corny jokes. For example, when we are driving anywhere with our children and pass by a cemetery: “That’s a really nice...
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Happy Peanut Butter Cookie Day
Luke and Nora, two of my grandchildren, came over and helped me bake some cookies for Peanut Butter Cookie Day (June 12th). The recipe I...
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Summer Summit
It’s here: the end of the school year! The last month of the school year is not unlike the last month of pregnancy. Women are tired, worn...
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The Sacredness of Now
(excerpt from "One Mom to Another" - A Mighty Work.) I once gave a talk in a women’s conference with the theme, “With Joy Wend Your...
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Why Can't You Just Get Along ?
We were driving from Ohio to Indiana in a blinding rainstorm. Rich had a new job and I was driving the children to meet him and look for...
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Loss
An excerpt from my book, One Mom to Another. Dayne taught me we are all the same. As a young man, Blake completed two years of...
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Mealtime Mayhem
One night, when I couldn’t think of anything to make and didn’t have the energy to make it anyway, I came up with the idea to have our...
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All Women Are Superheroes
I have always enjoyed superheroes. I mean, they are “super” and are “heroes.” In fifth grade, my friends Mickey, Kevin, Bill, and I...
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Reframe our Measure of Success
(Excerpt from the chapter "That Time I Shut the Day Down") Most years, Rich takes our children, William, Eric, Daniel, Caroline and...
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