During the cold, dreary days of winter, a popular childhood pastime was listening to records. (For those of you too young to remember, records were flat, black, vinyl discs upon[…]
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Mar
2023
Author: Carolyn
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Mar
2023
During our sojourn in Crossville last fall, we happened to eat at the local Cracker Barrel. Their Country Store is one of my favorite places to shop, especially around the[…]
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Aug
2020
Have you ever received something you didn’t even know you wanted until you had it? Earlier this summer, that’s exactly what happened to me. For nearly two weeks last month,[…]
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Jul
2020
Have you ever noticed that human nature is only used to explain undesirable behavior? Human nature is declared, and all too often accepted, as the explanation for nearly every example[…]
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Jul
2020
Standing in a theatre lobby (preCOVID), I overheard some young cast members engaged in a conversation. They were sharing their mutual admiration for a more experienced fellow actor who refused[…]
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Jul
2020
What exactly does it mean to be grown up? How do we know when we are? Is it based on age or achieved by merely reaching physical maturity? There are[…]
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Jun
2020
My older son has been urging me to write a blog for years. At first I resisted because frankly, I didn’t like the word blog. It sounds like something that[…]
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May
2020
Previously I wrote that words are powerful. After thinking about that statement, I would like to modify it. More accurately, words can be powerful. Words, in and of themselves, have[…]
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May
2020
Standing at about five foot nothing, my grandmother was a woman of few words. But her face, especially her piercing, slate blue eyes, spoke volumes. I don’t ever remember her[…]
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May
2020
The current culture of anger deeply disturbs me. Granted, anger is a natural human emotion, a signal that something is awry. However, it is both seductive and deceptive, creating the[…]