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Beauty

Why Bother to Vacate?

Why Bother to Vacate? It is that time of year again. The calendar has held this date for us since April when we first made our reservations. We are taking off on a summer vacation today, a yearly tradition we’ve held for several years.  When our sons were young, our summer vacations centered around traveling…
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Learning

Why Bother to Name that Emotion?

Why Bother to Name that Emotion? I didn’t want to raise daughters. I was afraid to. I thought they would be too hard to manage because of all of the messy emotions I thought already came packaged inside of little girls. For that reason, I was grateful and somewhat relieved each time I birthed a…
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Family

Why Bother Remembering Wedding Vows?

    Why Bother Remembering Wedding Vows? “To be my wedded husband to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.”  Forty-two years ago on August 2, I repeated these traditional wedding…
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Learning

Why Bother to Stop Saying, “Someday”?

Why Bother to Stop Saying “Someday”? Did you know that someday is not an official day of the week? There are only seven days in any given week; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Yet, some people add an eighth day and call it, someday.  Sometimes we begin our sentence by saying, “Someday,…
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