Countdown to Thanksgiving Thursday – Books, Videos & Toys

Day 5 of The Swine… between caring for my feverish and slightly dizzy son and trying to disinfect every surface in the house, I haven’t made time to even pull out the few Thanksgiving decorations we have or cut out those Thankful Leaves. (But I WILL. I am DETERMINED. Therefore it [...]

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If I Had A “Share This” Button In My Brain

It’s Saturday morning and I’m sitting at home, waiting for the bug guy, again. (I think the bug guy should probably just move in with us, he is here so often.) (The stink bugs are back. En masse. We can’t even open the back door, because every time we do at least 3 of them [...]

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“There is no other man that, in my eyes, could stand up to him”

Husband. Father of five. Grandfather of three. At 62, Robert Crawford was a man that friends and family felt blessed to know. In the words of his daughter Jennifer,
“To describe my father as great, that’s not even a good enough word. I was lucky for him to be my father. There is no [...]

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I almost died yesterday

“near drowning” is how the doctors label it
“scariest moment of my life” is mine
I’ll tell you all the details later … It’s too hard on my iPhone at4something in the morning in a hospital bed. But I can’t sleep so I figured why not blog?
Please pray – for K – she was [...]

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There is no frigate like a book

To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
~ Emily Dickinson
“Frigate: (noun) a fast naval vessel of the late 18th and early 19th centuries” But I’m [...]

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