7 poems sharing 7 topics on my mind, including the impending arrival of the cicadas
The cicadas are coming and other poems (7 Quick Takes)
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The gift of infertility
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There is an emptiness and sorrow to infertility that is hard to describe.
When life gives you frozen lemonade…
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It feels very special to find a few minutes during the day to make a quick, frozen treat.
7 Poetic Highlights from Our Week (7 Quick Takes)
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Today, I’m trying 7 different poetic forms. I hope this is half as entertaining to read as it was to try to write them.
Up with the birds
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There’s something extraordinary about introducing the birds to the first light of the day.
Haiku Highlights from Easter (7 Quick Takes)
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Sharing seven haiku written during the Octave of Easter
An Easter full of hope
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As I set our table for dinner, I thought of all the people who were part of our celebration even though they weren’t physically with us.
A sweet gift, a birthday, Easter foods, and spring snow (7 Quick Limericks)
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If you like limericks, this post is for you.
The finches’ first Easter
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This will be our pet birds’ first Easter with us.
Walking through Holy Week
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We don’t need to begin the holiest week of the year at our best. It comes either way. And maybe we’re prepared to receive the risen Jesus in a way we can’t quite see.
We say grace in this house
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Whether you and I are in good practice or not of praying in the morning, evening, or throughout the day, thanking God for our meals is a simple and easy way to praise Him.
My father’s cookies, a leftover bunny, and other discoveries (7 Quick Takes)
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~1~ Can you go to your parents’ house and come home empty-handed? Me neither. I came home with a bag of my father’s homemade cookies, a copy of the newspaper with our wedding announcement in it, a few wedding photos I had forgotten about, and printouts of our online guestbook. I don’t even recall having […]
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