Published November 13th, 2015 by

“Let’s do this again soon,” she smiled as we parted. Meanwhile I was thinking to myself–NO WAY! You see, I thought I was having a lovely lunch with a friend…

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Published November 12th, 2015 by

Yep, that’s me! I am a logophile or in today’s English, a word lover, a word buff. I guess you’d expect nothing less from a writer. If I didn’t love…

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Published November 11th, 2015 by

Of course this is Remembrance Day, the day when we think about those who have served our counties in so many wars and perhaps sacrificed their lives in doing so…

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Published November 10th, 2015 by

I guess you’ve heard about the Bible ‘ites’… the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Hivites and the SINITES? Wait a minute, who are the SINITES? They showed up in my reading…

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Published November 9th, 2015 by

“The Lord doesn’t need a microphone. But you and everyone else does!” – Author Ray Wiseman, overheard at the 2015 Word Guild conference. At any and every event, there is…

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Published November 8th, 2015 by

Have you ever asked yourself this question? If everyone is leading, who is following? Hardly anyone writes a book about how to follow, but leaders? There are lots of those…

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Published November 7th, 2015 by

We feared travelling to the big city. We feared the towering buildings, the bright lights and the mobs of people. We worried about traffic signals and muggings. And we weren’t…

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Published November 6th, 2015 by

I hope you all have made a will… because if you haven’t, strange things, unwanted things will happen to all the worldly goods you leave when you die. Your family…

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Published November 5th, 2015 by

The guest speaker shared this thought. “I don’t always share my own self like this” …and went on to tell of the losses he’d had in his own family. Unbeknownst…

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Published November 4th, 2015 by

Doesn’t it sometimes seem that we are stumbling backwards while trying to go forward? While I was bemoaning this the other day, my friend caught me with these words: “Arrows…

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