Tag: friends
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What AI Taught Me About Myself
On Thanksgiving, there was an ad during one of the football games about ChatGPT. On a whim, I decided to download it and see how it perceived my current writing project. It was a WILD experience seeing my characters shown back to me in a way that was like taking a personality test for them.…
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Quirks: Everybody’s Got Them
This weekend I am helping with my church’s school play. I’ve helped with them in the past, but this year I am more emotionally involved and therefore need an outlet. (Good thing I already have this blog 😉 ) I was thinking about the play tonight while trying to wind down and instead my brain…
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“For Purple Mountains Majesty…”
Last weekend, I had the honor of going to my favorite area of Colorado for the 5th time. This was my third time going for a women’s conference, and it seems as though every time I go for a conference, I fall more in love with the area. Obviously, I love visiting, but something about…
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Surprise Friendships
“Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful friend who can find?” Proverbs 20:6, ESV (emphasis and word change are mine) I haven’t talked about it in a while, so I’ll reset my life story briefly: my dad was in the Army from 8 months before I was born until well after…
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“Go Hard.”
Over the last two weeks, I’ve had a culmination of all my inner frustrations and disappointments hit me and cause such an intense blockage in my soul that it was what my pastor likes to call “a crisis of character.” And boy howdy, it was that. When I start to daydream about running away from…
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Same… But Different
I’ve been putting off writing this post for a number of reasons. The chief reason is that I really am trying to keep this blog from becoming a “grief and loss” blog. The secondary reason is that I have been feeling a big loss and trying to convince myself it’s silly to still have these…
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The Memories We Leave Behind
Years ago, there was an older gentleman near my neighborhood who began going on nighttime walks with a dog that, to my eyes as I drove by at 40 miles per hour, seemed to be hobbling. One night as I drove by, I was shocked to discover the dog only had 3 legs. I’m not…
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Deja Vu…
Today we had a family dinner. We try to have one about every month or so. I love when we have them on Sundays because Sundays were always the “family day” growing up. We would go to church in the morning and then the rest of the day was usually spent with just the four…
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You Don’t Have To Build A Rollercoaster…
Shoutout to all the people who will get the obscure reference that is this post’s title. 😉 I’m not really sure how it happened. Maybe it’s because I turned 35 a few weeks ago. But I’ve really been thinking about the passage time. As Kamala Harris once said, “There is such a great significance to…
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“In Everything… Be…”
One of the things I am reminded of every time I go to the mountains is to just relax and be. With our now-annual girls trips and the annual women’s conference, sometimes the desire to do things starts to become overwhelming for me. I can’t speak for anyone else, and that’s fine, because this is…
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