a little nonsense

Mark had no idea just how much Thailand was going to change our little family's life. Previous to ever seriously considering going to Thailand, there had been a feeling festering inside me.    Resentment.  I wasn't living the life, that deep

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artwork credit: Mary Southard, Great Solstice Moon I owe the world an apology.  It's been a long time coming.  However, I couldn't write about it until I met some kind of resolve, found some amount of strength that I hadn't

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This past Thursday night, Mark rushed me to the E.R.  It appeared that my body was going into shock from profuse bleeding I had been experiencing.  After some treatment, blood work, an ultrasound, and a physical examination, the doctor confirmed

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I love my dad.  While talking to him on the phone today I found out that after a big snow storm yesterday he scraped snow from a long list of people's driveways.  Discarding his lengthy to-do list, he without a second

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While on Christmas break, I went with some of my husband's family to shoot guns in the desert.  Two Thompson brothers and their wives.  My sister-in-law asked me, with the boys in the background shooting the vintage Russian World War II

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First Springfield Cardinals baseball game.  I am having a doozie of a time uploading pictures to Blogger.  These Instagram pictures give me the least amount of problems so they are what my blogs get.  These pictures were meant for the

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Who colors their hair the night before family pictures?  This crazy girl does.  Our good friend and photographer did such a great job taking these for us.  Thank you Michelle!  You can find her work here.  Truly I am always nervous

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