At our wedding, My Guy and I danced to “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell version. It’s joyful and, perhaps most importantly, it’s short. Hell on earth is…
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Crawling into bed at 12:01 this morning, Jan. 1, I realized that my elderly dachshund had pooed on the sheets. Not all over the sheets, but he’d done a drive-by wipe on…
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I got dressed today, cleaned my kitchen and did a solid two hours of work. That might be all I have in me. In the last three weeks, my FIL had a…
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Remember when I took off my wedding rings and lost them? And my dad, who has never ever ever taken his ring off in the eleventy billion years he’s been married earned…
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A guy my parents used to pal around with recently died. He dropped dead of a heart attack. To say it was a shock is an understatement. I don’t think we give…
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“Life gives you lots of mothers.” It’s true. I’m blessed with an amazing “real” mom. But I’ve been guided and comforted by many other moms, too. There was Debby, the woman I…
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I know it’s not appropriate to stomp your feet and yell, “No, no, no” upon reading the obituary of a 92-year-old woman. But that didn’t stop me. My mom sent me the…
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So, I almost started bawling in a stranger’s kitchen. This weekend, my family was given a tour of the house my grandparents built. They lived there from 1961 until they moved to…
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It’s the season of Mother’s Day, so you know what I’m going to talk about: liquor. My home state of Iowa only had state-owned liquor stores until 1987. They all had blue…
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One of my pals recently admitted to hiding from her kids. She was lying low so as to leave a tricky parenting situation to her husband. Their girls – ages 4 and…