Category: Just Life
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Meet me for coffee?
One of the things I love most about working at a coffee shop is the opportunity to have coffee with folks that stop in for a few minutes before heading off to their busy day. If I could do that full time . . . I’d be way over caffeinated, but so stinking happy. That’s…
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Life is Short. Eternity is Forever.
I stood by her bedside a little while ago. She could only communicate with a pen and paper. It was almost a year ago that I stood by her husband’s bedside. He had collapsed the day before in the checkout line at Walmart. A couple of customers and myself tried to resuscitate him. He survived, but only…
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Your Little Red Wagon
Dear Noa, I’ve had you on my mind a lot lately. In the winter I can see your house from the interstate as I drive into work every day. I try to catch a glimpse of you through the barren trees that allow me to have a split second view. But all I ever get…
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42 things I would tell a younger me. . .
I’m 42 today. I’m less excited about this milestone than the previous 41. The mirror seems to daily tell me that I’m so much older than I feel. Gray hairs abound. Lines seem to appear in places they didn’t exist just a year ago. That being said, I find myself a bit more introspective this year…
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Drop Your Drawers!
WAIT! Don’t Really drop – your – drawers! I mean, keep your pants on, but let me tell you about a really cool way you can help in our community. Kelly & Eric Andrews and a team of volunteers from the Nehemiah Project, provide backpacks and school supplies to hundreds of students in 11 of our…
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Opportunity is Knocking
It exciting! But its kind of scary. You see, Opportunity seldom comes to visit without his little brother Risk. I like Opportunity, he’s optimistic, fun to be around, he’s charismatic, he gets you dreaming about all of the exciting things that could happen. But his little brother Risk, well he’s the two year old running…
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Rise Up
The alarm startled me awake from a deep sleep. It was somewhere around 1am. “A Tornado warning has been issued for your area, please take cover immediately!” I got up and turned on the TV to see exactly what was happening. For the next two hours I watched as different parts of our community were…
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Small miracles? Really?
If you have spent any time with me over the last two years, you know that I am fully aware of the fact that I am not a natural born businessman. Running a small business is perhaps the most challenging and frightening thing I have ever done in my four decades of life. Over the…
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held
Our sweet baby girl has cried and cried tonight. She’s not felt well all day and this evening she reached that place where she was almost unconsolable. We would take turns holding her but she remained so unsettled. So badly Kristi and I both wanted to soothe her to settle her to take away her…
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Hazel’s Old Brown Chair
It creaks when I sit down in it, and when I lift the legs to recline it click, click, clicks like one of those turn style gates at an amusement park. Its not the prettiest piece of furniture in our house, but its comfortable. It’s my spot. It’s Hazel’s old brown chair. Hazel was a friend.…