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Why Bother Honoring a Mother’s Heart?

Why Bother Honoring A  Mother’s Heart? Though I never thought I’d see myself living past the age of twenty-two, getting married or becoming a mom, my short sightedness proved wrong. I’ve lived way past the age of twenty-two, I’m married and have three sons.  My husband was the first one to mention the idea of…
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Health

Why Bother Cutting Ties With Worry?

Why Bother Cutting Ties With Worry? I used to worry when I wasn’t worried. It felt as though I was being negligent or forgetful, that I was guilty of slacking off.   Worry had become a reliable, constant and familiar companion. Even though it was egotistical, thinking it was always right, I let it have its…
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Gratitude

Why Bother Looking Up?

Why bother looking up? It is easier to look up when the sky is blue rather than when it is gray and raining. As a friend once said to me, “If I look up when it’s raining, all I get is raindrops in my eyes.” November begins the wet season here in North Idaho and…
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Family

Why Bother Remembering Where You Came From?

Why bother remembering where you came from? I never met my great grandmother, Frances. She lived in Idaho while I lived in Nebraska and died when I was seven. I don’t know much of her back story except for what I have read in a booklet one of my great aunts scribed after Frances’s death. …
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