This morning I had to remove the battery from my cell phone after it got stuck in locked mode AGAIN (which, AT&T?  I spent my extra birthday money on this ridiculous phone so I could use the super-fun slidey text keyboard thingy that I am honestly too old to be excited about.  I did not [...]

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Confession: I suck at geography. Really. Embarrassingly bad at it.
Staring at the world map in our training room the other day was eye opening for me. I am ashamed to admit that many of those multicolored chunks of land were not at all where I expected them to be.
I get lost. [...]

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When I pulled into the driveway after work the other night, I got that weird feeling that something was out of the ordinary. It took me a minute to realize that I was seeing the back of our neighbor’s house for the first time ever. You see, up until this week, our backyard [...]

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For the last several years, my family has traveled to Nashville for Mother’s Day weekend, and this year was no exception. Normally during this trip, most of my family goes to the Grand Ole Opry, while the rest of us non-country-music fans hit the mall and buy the exact same things we could buy [...]

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I’ve spent the past week bird watching, a fact that will probably surprise most anyone who has known me for any length of time. While I have a huge heart for animals, I am not exactly fowl-friendly (Though I seem to be surrounded by them lately–see also: Bird Extraction 101.)
Birds and I have been at [...]

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