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Socrates is credited as saying that an unexamined life is not worth living. But, how often do we take the time to examine, ponder, ruminate, mull over, reflect, speculate, muse, wonder or meditate? Unless we take the time to ponder how we live our lives, pondering will never be a part of our lives. A…

When I was eleven my family moved from Aberdeen, South Dakota to Durango, Colorado. Living in Durango I encountered a new culture at my junior high, Spanish speaking teachers and students. I’d grown up in an English speaking home, and English speaking schools. The sound of Spanish was foreign to my ears and though I…

A friend posed this question to me, “If you had twenty-four hours to live, would you spend them with your siblings?” If she had asked me this question four years ago, I would have had to say, “no”. But today, I would answer “yes”.  Mending Family Matters, Matters Four years ago, when my middle born…

It is difficult for me to admit to the many unrealistic expectations I’ve had of myself and of others over the course of my lifetime, so I won’t list them here. Suffice to say that some of the things I thought about myself and about others as practical, possible, or probable were in fact impractical,…