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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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What books do you want to read? I love to read books that tell me more than I already know! Any book filled with hints, suggestions, knowledge and experience I can use to better myself are my favorites! Southern novels like Clyde Edgerton’s ” Walk Across Egypt” come in second. The type of book that… Read more
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What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time? I dreamed when I retired my husband and I would spend our leisure time camping in the mountains of North Georgia and North Carolina. Instead we are caring for my mother who has dementia. So leisure time doesn’t involve traveling in our truck with a… Read more
For Real, Elaine?! 