Hi, there! I took quite a spell off, graduating kiddos, purchasing a little forest valley, and packing and moving 20 years worth of things. We were in one house so long, we went from baby cradle to the stuffed animal phase to the dress-up stage to the camo pants and airsoft guns stage to first car. And there was a…
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Doing Something Hard
I’m doing something hard. Sure, that’s subjective, “hard” can be many things and I have the recent perspective of knowing a young man who became paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his mountain bike. That’s really hard. But my life is the life I’m living, and I can only know what it is like from these shoes. In…
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Is Chicken Herding a Profession?
Is there such a thing as a professional free-range chicken herder? I could be that. I should be busy packing or washing dishes or doing any number of chores, but I’m mesmerized by the browns, yellows, whites, and blacks fluttering among the mondo grass, pecking at every plant as a toddler tries to gum every object. They don’t yet know…
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