There is no human relationship as raw, beautiful, ugly, deep, painful, and incredible as marriage with your spouse. Nobody is as close to you physically and emotionally as your spouse. You see each other in many different scenarios, and grow to know each other so well, you probably know how your spouse would react in […]
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When I was a young girl I suspect I was a handful. Not because of misbehavior, or any sort of rotten attitude. But I’ve always had a wild and adventurous heart. I’m not sure where that came from, but it’s always been there, festering inside of me. I think it started with the jumping. Before
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Have you ever noticed how often old people are either the kindest most pleasant people you know, or the most bitter, rude, and miserable? Most young or middle aged adults may lean one way or another, but are generally seen as being somewhere in the middle. At the end of life though, we often seem
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I don’t make political posts because I enjoy being confrontational. I actually hate it. It gives me anxiety nearly each time I hit “publish” because I have people that I love who voted differently than I did, and I know how polarizing this political climate absolutely is. I do it anyway though, because I care
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Not to make anyone relive the horrors of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, but it is worth remembering as a test to see which Democrats deserve support, and which should be branded as disingenuous grifters who would step over a starving one-legged child drowning in a street puddle just so they could make it to Sunday
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History likes to repeat itself. We can document events and atrocities all we want, but this is a fact that humans have fallen prey to time and time again, and 2025 is no different. I’m not writing today to say that people will react exactly the same in all situations, but there are commonalities that
My childhood was spent in Florida, so I can remember hurricane warnings. I remember my parents boarding up the windows and stocking up on supplies. But we moved to western North Carolina when I was twelve. A place I always understood to be safe from hurricanes. I can tell you that none of us were
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Lifeless. Breathless. That wonderful woman. The one who helped make my childhood. That’s her in the coffin. I saw her, but she wasn’t there.I touched her, but it wasn’t her. And we all cried And cried And cried some more. Then we put her in the dark.A dark hole.And the light that I had always
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There was no storm in the forecast, yet it sprung upon them in the evening. Not a weather event, but still an atmospheric pressure of sorts. The pouring came heavy. Captain Morgan drowned his discontent, his melancholy; And as a result of watering his hurt, a thunderous voice erupted on a school night. The young
