Hello and welcome to my late-arriving Friday post. Let’s just pretend I’m on the West Coast, shall we? Then I can be three hours less late than I really am. Okay. Welcome to the Twitter Ho-Down, as hosted by The Fellowship of the Traveling Smarty Pants. Below, the best of ME from this week. I [...]

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So what have I learned this week? Besides that I’m a twoet and didn’t know it? (BWAHAHAH! Get it?!!!) No, seriously. What I learned this week is… That I have a dysfunctional relationship with guilt. How did I learn this? By spending an entire peaceful day in an empty house yesterday, while our wonderful teenage [...]

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That’s what the counter staff shout at you at the Varsity, an Atlanta landmark restaurant. You’re standing there at a 500-foot-long counter (at least that’s the way I remember it…), with 92 counter staff. And every one of them who makes eye contact with you shouts, “What’ll ya have?!” I’ll tell you, it’s intimidating while [...]

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Okay. Here I sit with second-novel syndrome – after one blog post. The handful of comments I received (on my Facebook page) were positive. Most commented on what I said about manna, which I’d considered a kind of throwaway analogy. So I seem to be on the right track. Good, right? Well, yeah. But here’s [...]

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Over the past six months, I’ve been pondering “what I want to do when I grow up.” At age 40, for the first time in over a decade, I will have freedom during the day to do whatever I want. My youngest child is going off to kindergarten. “Whatever I want” has been both freeing [...]

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I haven’t written or blog posted in a couple weeks now. Instead I’ve surfed the web, procrastinating writing because now it’s WRITING, a task I’ve assigned myself, and thus something to be avoided. (But that’s another topic.) I was thinking yesterday during church about my talents. I don’t remember what PK (our pastor, Kevin’s, nickname) [...]

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