Monthly Archive for October, 2008

Stop the madness!

Judging by the dates on the messages in the Deleted Items folders of my work and personal accounts, it’s been about four months since my last email purge. Total tally of deleted messages I have accumulated since then? Over 4000. As in four THOUSAND pointless pieces of information to cross my screen in recent months, […]

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On friendship

It catches me by surprise sometimes, the reflections inspired from teaching my daughter’s Sunday School class. Last weekend, the topic was “friendship,” and we studied from the biblical example of David and Jonathan. It got me thinking…what is friendship, exactly? And what is the difference between having friends and being a friend? Merriam-Webster defines friend […]

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Supersonic hearing

I don’t know which one of us is weirdly abnormal, me or Kent. Because either I desperately need hearing aids, or he has the most supersonic hearing ever granted to a human being. One morning earlier this week, when I turned on the TV in our bedroom to get my daily dose of bad news, […]

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The sounds of silence

I love Columbus Day. Inexplicably, it’s one of the holidays I get off from work, even though I’m not employed by a bank, the government, or the post office. Even my husband, who DOES work for a local city government, has to work today. And the kids have school. Is it obvious yet why I […]

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