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His Name is Yella Dog
Yella is a yellow lab—a homeless yellow dog who staked out a two-block area about a mile from my home. I didn’t know he was homeless until months later when I was able to strike up a conversation on the front lawn of one of his adopted caretakers. I met the yellow dog while walking…
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Like Butterflies: Two Tips to Speaking Good Words
I was recently inspired by a post that said good words are like butterflies. Reading that post came after a friend told me she heard a mom tell her little boy to “shut the hell up.” I don’t know about you, but that makes me cringe inside. Understanding the power of words can be the…
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A Small Town with a Big Gift
As you know, part of enjoying life is discovering new places for yourself and this trip was new to us. It took about an hour and a half traveling west on a few countryside two-lane highways to get to our destination. The kind of highways you worry about deer surprising you after dark. This picture…