History, Real Life, and Faith
Author Lauraine Snelling and I have been friends for years. One day, I mentioned my family recently had visited Washington State. “What part of Washington?” She asked. “Silverdale. It’s on the Kitsap peninsula across Puget Sound from Seattle.” Lauraine grinned. “I know it well. I grew up there.” My family lived there for four years and so we swapped stories….
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5 things I love about sin
Mrs. Ule’s Mean and Cruel Summer School began many years ago. Here’s how to entertain/teach kids over their summer break. Click to Tweet I took a pile of unread National Geographic Magazines to the hospital with me when I gave birth to my third child. I had a lot of reading to catch up on and I figured the photos…
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The (poor) habit of a favorite place to sit or dance.
The emotional toll of culling the family bookshelves
I live an hour north of San Francisco International Airport. We’ve been following the tragic 777 plane crash there in 2013 and are grateful only two lives were lost. My brother flew the day after the crash and he commented, “for the first time in years, I read through the emergency evacuation card.” It all felt closer to home after Saturday’s tragedy,…
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