Month: May 2010
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Yes you can child
Such a loud scream from such a little kid. “I can’t do it. It hurts!” My heart went out to the child. And I would have believed the child with a cast on leg broken at the playground except … except, well I just didn’t think that a week after a simple break disabled the…
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Graduation section done!
That thunk on the drive or the front step heard in the wee hours of the morning was the reality of the end of high school hitting the parents of graduates across the county – and our annual graduation section stuffed with pictures and stories of high school and college graduates and scholarship recipients. That…
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And N. Dakota makes 50
After more than 60 years my husband checked off the final item on his list. He visited his 50th state: North Dakota, that obscure state with low unemployment on the Canadian border. His check list began in 1951 with his father’s surprise extension of a short trip from their home state of Indiana to Kentucky…
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Help me! I can’t stop
One, just one. That’s all it took to set me on a path of construction from which I may never recover. It started at a house with junk strewn around the front and into the garage. It looked all so innocent, but hidden in the heap lurked my addictive component: One matted and framed Precious…