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Fall & Food
Oh, sweet Fall! How we’ve patiently awaited your cooler temperatures, your color palate of oranges and reds, your pumpkin patches, leaves to play in, cider & donuts. For children, you are a new beginning, never-been-used pencils, and fresh-faced teachers. For parents, a gentle reprieve from the summer madness, hustle & bustle. For my family, you…
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Detroit Blood
I’ve gone soft. The change happened over a span of 8 years while adjusting to and then permanently residing in West Michigan. The adaptations have been gradual, of course, but the reality hit me today like a rush hour traffic jam on 696. Fast. When I left the Detroit area, I left in my black…
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The Happiest 5k on the Planet
My alarm went off at 5:50am this morning, reminding me that I was about to run in The Color Run – Grand Rapids with one day’s worth of training under my belt and some pre-existing knee pain. 5:50am. Yuck. My parents were up for the weekend to take care of some GR chores, so I…
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Crazy Thoughts of a Homeowner
When you become a homeowner, especially when you’ve done most of the work on it yourself, you begin to think things that you never thought you would. Some of them are happy things or terrifying things or deep things, but mostly they’re just insane things. They can be things like this: Are my solar lights…
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The Reading Room
This 4th of July, Freddy and I celebrated the nation’s birth the most American way we could think of: By stimulating the economy. When we bought this house, and even some time before, I started signing up for every department store, home improvement store, and home decorating store that would put me on their e-mail…
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Starting the Deck Makeover
Freddy is awesome at setting project budgets. When we bought our house, he budgeted out every single one of the rooms and I scoffed at his detail down to the nails he’d needed to purchase. Of course I was amazed when we were able to accomplish what we set out to do at our budgeted…
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What Legacy am I Creating?
What will people say about me as I draw my final earthly breaths? If I could choose (and ultimately I do choose by the way I live my life), I would want people to say things like: She’s God-fearing. She had a great sense of humor. She loved her family. She was compassionate. She was…
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The Legacy to an Outsider
This weekend started early with a text from my husband saying that his father was given 24-48 hours to live. Fred Sr. was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer 3 years ago. After several surgeries, trips to the hospital, and intense treatments, he was declared cancer free. The announcement came as a shock to doctors…
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