With racial tension being featured in the headlines again, I wish I could call on the fairy godmother with unlimited wishes. She could wave her wand over the situation, and this would be the result. Bibbidi, bobbidi, boo … No more instances where treatment is determined by skin color. No more media throwing kerosene on […]
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The Confessional Lines of a Recovering Over-Achiever
One day when I was shopping, I came across this t-shirt. After reading the words, my heart sank. Now before I start sounding like a lecture, I do think that is the trouble with society these days. We somehow have bought the lie that the more we do, the better we are. The more we […]
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Taking a Risk (the Ballot Line-up)
Risk:to venture upon; take or run the chance of: Learning to play the guitar was one of my goals in my early 20’s. Perhaps it was possibly because I was slightly enamored with the cute single instructor. But I borrowed my grandparents old guitar – the one that must have been purchased at a discount chain because […]
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Written Lines of Rights: Equal vs. Protected
For the past 240 years, we in the United States of America have celebrated rights. In fact in one of our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, you can find these very famous words. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain […]
Continue readingModern Day Lines of Slavery
Writing about the Underground Railroad last week on my Odyssey through Nebraska blog was much easier than the topic at hand. After all that type of slavery officially ended during the Civil War time period. Enough years have passed that, for the most part, people universally recognize that that was a dark period in our […]
Continue readingConnecting the Dots with Lines: From Nebraska to Nepal
-Five Midwestern college guys wanting to take 6 months off in the mountains before starting “real” jobs -A man closer to retirement than to entering the work force beginning a whole other “career” -A nationally touring recording rock band -A radio station with a mission -A six year old girl -A homeschooling mom When you […]
Continue readingThe Lines of Skipping Thanksgiving
Several years ago, John Grisham wrote a book entitled, Skipping Christmas about a couple who decides to take a vacation instead of going about their typical Christmas events. Of course life never goes as planned, and the results are different than they anticipated. (A fun read!) Anyway, I think our culture every year seems to […]
Continue readingLong Line of Grievers
This week has a been a celebration of new life for my family – welcoming my sweet niece into the world. But I was tremendously saddened to learn that for a family friend, this is has turned into a celebration of life through the completely unexpected loss of their two year old granddaughter. I never […]
Continue readingLines of Gratitude: Friendship regardless of checked boxes
You know how whenever you have to fill out forms you have to check the box married or single? For a long time, that box was a symbol of my discontent. Checking “single” was not the plan that I had for my life. I met my husband at 25 and married him at 26. Seems […]
Continue readingLines of Gratitude: Celebrating Life and Service
November 11th has always been a day of celebration for our family. Mainly for us because of the fact that it is my husband’s birthday. Since he works for our city, today is considered a government holiday. So, every birthday we have celebrated with him being around. Today he spent the day painting in our […]
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