Tit for Tat

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  Tit for tat.  We don’t hear this term much these days, but it basically means to give someone as good as they got.  Or, to respond back to someone in the same manner as they have responded to you. One thing I’ve learned in living this life of nearly … Read More

Crosses by the Wayside

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  My husband and I travel. . . a lot. Recently, as we were returning from a trip to our son’s home in Nebraska, it was about ten o’clock at night and I was driving.  We’d had a long day and I was getting pretty tired; Jim was sleeping in … Read More

My Last Night with Daddy

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The room darkened as the cold winter sun settled to the west, hiding behind a big bank of snow clouds.  It seems like it was just yesterday rather than over twenty years ago now that I sat with my daddy for the very last time, holding his hand and talking … Read More

‘Specially Yours

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It happened something like this. . . Sitting in the large, open auditorium, I was tired, but it was a happy tired. You see, our daughter was getting married; and I had managed to acquire the church, where she had grown up going to Sunday school and church from a … Read More

Sometimes It Happens

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Don’t ask me to explain it.  Really there likely isn’t an explanation.  However, sometimes, like this morning. . .  when I was cleaning the master bathroom, I could swear that I heard my mama’s voice. Now before you start thinking that I have lost my last marble, let me clarify … Read More