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Our Family’s Culture Regarding our childhoods, whether an only child, one of many, wanted, adopted, abused, or abandoned our childhoods shaped us. During our formative years, beginning in infancy and ending when we finally flew the coop, our lives took a particular shape based on our family’s culture.  Culture, in its simplest definition, is the…

Regarding Childhood It is a new month and I get to choose a new theme! I choose the theme of, regarding our childhoods. Whether we are an only child, one of many, wanted, adopted or abused, we are better adults if we regard our childhoods instead of disregarding them.  Our childhoods shape us. During our…

God Stays the Same Today my quote comes from a Fat LiL’ Notebook dated 2009. “The trials may be different, but God is the same.” Back in 2009, my husband and I were launching our last born son. He’d graduated from high school, decided to head to Portland, live with a friend, and see what…

Overcoming Evil With Good “The impact of one good deed was infinitely more powerful than evil.” This quote is from Mario Escobar’s book Children of the Stars. Children of the Stars is the story of two young Jewish boys during WWII. These two brothers have to rely and trust strangers in order to be reunited…