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Book Review: After The Cheering Stops

After The Cheering Stops:  An NFL Wife’s Story Of Concussions, Loss, And The Faith That Saw Her Through, by Cyndy Feasel with Mike Yorkey [Note:  This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/Thomas Nelson Publishing.  All thoughts and opinions … Continue reading

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Book Review: Fearless: How A Diagnosis Of A Chronic Disease Turned My Life Upside Down

Fearless:  How A Diagnosis Of A Chronic Disease Turned My Life Upside Down, by Jo Ann Maxwell [Note:  This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/West Bow Press.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.] While there are some … Continue reading

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Book Review: An Ordinary Life, An Extraordinary God

An Ordinary Life, An Extraordinary God:  Is Anybody Really Listening?, by Paul C. Hale [Note:  This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/WestBow Press in exchange for an honest review.] From time to time I get the chance to … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle:  A Memoir, by Jeanette Walls This is the second book in the CASA book of the month club [1], and as might be expected, it is a book about a broken family.  In fact, this book is … Continue reading

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To Write Love On Their Arms: A Thought Experiment

Today I would like to conduct a bit of a thought experiment, and since it is a different sort of thought experiment than I typically engage in, I thought it would be worthwhile to lay out ahead of time what … Continue reading

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Book Review: Struggle For Intimacy

Struggle For Intimacy, by Janet G. Woitiz This is one of the used books I purchased while attending the feast in Steamboat Springs, and it was read by one of the people I stayed with, and was bought with the … Continue reading

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Funerals Bring Families Together

This afternoon at about 4:30PM, a group of mourners at the Prince of Peace Anglican Church in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania stood facing four siblings on a bench while a naval honor guard saluted to a flag and to the siblings, and … Continue reading

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Book Review: This Is Your Captain Speaking

This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith, & Life, by Gavin MacLeod with Mark Dagostino [Note: This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/Thomas Nelson Publishers in exchange for an honest review.] When I was … Continue reading

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A Migraine You Don’t Deserve

I get headaches often enough and for enough reasons that, like everything else, I turn my analytical approach to it [1]. It is fortunate, for many reasons, that I do not drink alcohol, as that eliminates hangovers from my tendency … Continue reading

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Four Five Seconds From Wildin’

This weekend, while I was being a bit of an insomniac, as is often the case, I decided to take a listen to one of the most unusual collaborations I have ever heard of. When I saw that a collaboration … Continue reading

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