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What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance? My mother named me Rita Elaine after my beautiful Aunt Rita from England. I went by my middle name all through my childhood and still am called Elaine by family and friends. Thirteen months after I was born my mom and dad brought home… Read more
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What is the last thing you learned? I got a new iPhone this month! Lord, help me! I had my old iPhone for seven years so, to say I am having a hard time adjusting is mild! Yesterday afternoon I was trying to make out my weekly grocery order on the Kroger mobile app. When… Read more
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How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Oh, I could write a whole book on this subject. I have had many failures in my life which led me to greater blessings. In retrospect I don’t think I will tell you about just one incident. Instead, I want to tell… Read more
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You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? I am the product of a hard working family who raised me on our farm named Looneyville. Read more
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What advice would you give to your teenage self? You do not have to please everyone! Learn to just say “no” and be ok with it! Your purpose and mission for life is not to make everyone happy. Girl, even Jesus Christ couldn’t do that! So, get off your high horse and pull up your… Read more
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You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do? Wow! He did it once again! Each time I am blessed with exceedingly more than I ever dreamed! I always become overwhelmed with extreme gratitude. My heart immediately longs to tell God how thankful I am for his love and goodness. 20Now… Read more
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Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end. When I was a young girl growing up we used to sing the song “Home on the Range.” Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roamWhere the deer and the antelope play,Where seldom is heard, a discouraging wordAnd the skies are not cloudy all day.… Read more
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Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done. When you have lived in a house thirty years and raised four daughters your basement may begin to look like a scene from “Hoarders.” This is why my “to-do list”to declutter and organize our basement never gets done. Every time I start cleaning, decluttering and making… Read more
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What’s your favorite thing to cook? Cooking is a huge trait in my love language. So, my favorite thing to cook is whatever makes the one I am cooking for feel special. I inherited this trait from my paternal grandmother “Nannie.” Whenever my brother and I would visit her she would actually ask us what… Read more
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I read an article today where a woman was proclaiming she did not regret having an abortion. I have read where women have bragged about how many abortions they have had without any remorse whatsoever. I can’t comprehend this way of thinking. When I was 21 years old I had an abortion. I loved the… Read more
For Real, Elaine?! 