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Marching to Carmel

Reblogged from Surprised by Joy: We all have arguments with others, but are we on a ‘March to Carmel’ seeking to exact vengeance for wrongs and trespasses? In The Peacegiver by James Ferrell the main...

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What Happens When You Leave Your Kids with a High School Friend

This is too priceless not to share. It`s the email we got the first day away in Mexico: Hi J & M, Today has gone swimmingly. 830 -900 Wakeup & Lego 900 Brekky of scrabbled eggs with peppers and...

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This One’s For You, Amanda

This morning, Canada woke up to news of the suicide of a young girl named Amanda. But the real question is when will people wake up to the real problem of bullying in schools? Amanda’s Story As I...

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Magpies

Wintertime is upon us once again. Just the other day, huddled under the pines out the gym window, I saw tiny birds hopping around, out of the cold wind. Since then, most of the birds seem to have left,...

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The Portrait of a Writer (1)

Reblogged from Cristian Mihai: I began writing in my most vulnerable years. I was dumb and arrogant, as most teenagers seem to be, and I did my best to pour greatness into every sentence I wrote. But...

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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me

I just finished telling the admin assistant at my work that it’s a good thing I verbalize every single thought that comes into my head. That’s a little tongue in cheek, but mostly true, so when my...

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Where We End Up

12 year old me was a skinny kid with hair that was much too big for his head. I don’t have the best memory, but I recall wearing black stonewashed jeans that even at the time I knew weren’t...

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Christmas Past and Present

Every since I moved away from my home town, we’ve had the same discussion surrounding Christmas. It’s the “Do we go back from Christmas?” discussion. It drives me crazy.  When I was a kid, most of the...

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A Few Days Until Christmas

Merry Christmas, everyone! I haven’t posted in a while, again. Our house is an incredible mess, but it’s a happy kind of mess, with baked products and the components for several handmade gifts...

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Did a year really go by?

Oh my, how embarrassing! Now I’ve really gone and done it! Apparently I haven’t posted anything for a year! What’s doubly mortifying is that I went to log into my own blog, and I went to the wrong...

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