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Becoming an at-home hairstylist? Tips to avoid a hairy situation
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Becoming an at-home hairstylist? Tips to avoid a hairy situation

Rita BuettnerApril 13, 20203 min read
Here are a few tips if you find yourself starting your own home salon.
The beauty of Holy Saturday, our Lenten prayer basket, schoolwork, and a yummy mac and cheese recipe (7 Quick Takes)
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The beauty of Holy Saturday, our Lenten prayer basket, schoolwork, and a yummy mac and cheese recipe (7 Quick Takes)

Rita BuettnerApril 11, 20204 min read
Holy Saturday is such a powerful day. It’s a day of quiet. A day of transition. Today we stand between the sorrow of Good Friday and the joy of Easter. It is a peaceful, hopeful, expectant day.
As we await the Resurrection
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As we await the Resurrection

Rita BuettnerApril 10, 20203 min read
Somehow in this time of anxiety and indefinite quarantine, when so much seems uncertain, we seem to be primed for those moments of happy discovery—those moments when we see how much we are loved by God and by others.
The bird at the feeder
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The bird at the feeder

Rita BuettnerApril 7, 20202 min read
We’ve waited. We’ve watched. And the bird feeder has hung there, full of seeds no one was eating.
Not the Holy Week we expected
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Not the Holy Week we expected

Rita BuettnerApril 5, 20203 min read
Let’s find small and simple ways to walk with Jesus this Holy Week.
April is the perfect time to share these seven takes in rhyme
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April is the perfect time to share these seven takes in rhyme

Rita BuettnerApril 2, 20202 min read
Happy National Poetry Month!
Three kisses for Tomie dePaola
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Three kisses for Tomie dePaola

Rita BuettnerMarch 31, 20203 min read
We could never get enough of Tomie dePaola’s illustrations and stories. But what he has left behind for us will have to be enough to read over and over again.
A slice of apple cake a day to keep the quarantine blues away
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A slice of apple cake a day to keep the quarantine blues away

Rita BuettnerMarch 29, 20203 min read
Do you like to bake while in quarantine? Here is a recipe for a delicious apple cake.
Pie plate connection
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Pie plate connection

Rita BuettnerMarch 29, 20203 min read
Small acts of kindness show how connected we are – and can be – in a world that sometimes feels so focused on individual happiness.
A Lenty Lent, benefits to working from home, pants with nobody inside them, and more (7 Quick Takes)
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A Lenty Lent, benefits to working from home, pants with nobody inside them, and more (7 Quick Takes)

Rita BuettnerMarch 27, 20204 min read
We have only two weeks left until Easter, and I can’t decide whether Lent has been fast or slow. It’s just been…very Lenty.
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