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January’s cold weather spurs a hungry desire in me for Progresso’s Tomato Basil Soup. It is my favorite winter comfort food. There are so many different food combinations you can pair with tomato soup. If you were to poll random people each would name various food choices to go along with their tomato soup. Crackers… Read more
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I have been blessed with four intelligent, beautiful and independent daughters. This was my goal! This was my desire. I never wanted them to suffer the heartache and stress I had experienced. I prayed, I worked hard to make sure they had a good stable life. We went to church every Sunday as a family.… Read more
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One of the best accomplishments you can achieve is accepting the fact that often you are the problem in our life, We had rather believe everything and everyone else is causing our misery. We cry to anyone who will listen “If my boss had given me the promotion I applied for I wouldn’t be behind… Read more
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How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals? No where nearly as often as I should, but a lot more than I use too! As a wife, mother, grandmother and now the caregiver for my mother it is my nature to take care of everyone else first. However, I… 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
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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
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My dad was a tall handsome man. One of my very first memories of me and my dad together is of us walking in downtown Gainesville on the square. I had my tiny little hand wrapped around his one long middle finger and my short little legs struggled to keep up with his six-foot, four-inch… Read more
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My family will tell you I have pitched many a “hissy fit.” I have been on the war path more than once and they all have said —“Lord, she done lost her ever-loving mind!!” It’s the craziness gene I inherited from the blessed Looney tribe! Totally opposite of that reaction to anger have been occasions… Read more
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Many years ago my oldest daughter and I went on a mission trip to Jamaica with Mark B Danzey and a bus load of other folks from Bethany United Methodist and Jefferson United Methodist Church. It was an awesome experience to say the least. While there we helped build school rooms and conducted daily Bible… Read more
For Real, Elaine?! 