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Making Something: The Creativity We Keep to Ourselves
I love it when someone shares their creativity. Cooking, writing, painting, music, whatever it is, I just enjoy watching people make something. One of our members, Jeanell Sullivan, wrote a book and I really enjoyed it. THE CODE: 44 is short, practical, and the kind of thing you come back to. What worked for me was reading one lesson each day and bringing it into the walk to school with my kids. Some mornings it sparks something, some mornings it doesn’t. Either way, we’re talking…
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Cooking Together as a Family: The Glue That Keeps Us Close
That’s my grandmother’s rice and beans that my wife has mastered. We all love it and that pot didn’t last the night. There’s something about cooking that you can’t replace.…
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Letting Go of Fear That Was Never Yours to Carry.
The people closest to me are the ones who can get under my skin the fastest. They know where and how to push my buttons, and sometimes they push them…
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Setting Down What Was Never Yours to Carry.
There have been times when doing what I knew was good for me and my family felt like a burden. Like standing in cement while it hardened. All of it…
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What Someone Said in Passing That Changed Everything
I had a job in high school and one day they asked me to do phone sales. Problem was I stuttered and stammered when I talked. Everyone laughed, but I…
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