I BELIEVE I WAS born a compulsive overeater. When I was eighteen months old, my parents found me on the floor, sharing a bone with our labrador retriever. At age three, I discovered “trick or treating”: the next time Mom […]
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A Dozen Years
…Until December 17, 2006. Driving to Sunday school where I’d taught the same class more than 20 years, I stopped at a convenience store. The routine, both Sundays and weekdays, varied only in the name over the door of the […]
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The world is coming to an end. At least my world is. My town is destroyed, I cannot find my family. The dog is dead. My house is ashes. My insanity was coming back. I learned there was a meeting […]
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Happiness does not come from an object, a person, or place. Nor does it come from endless striving or attempting to capture it like a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. ~ Dean, Amy E. Morning Light: […]
Continue reading »Our Monumental Task
“The First Step prepares us for a new life, which we can achieve only by letting go of what we cannot control, and by undertaking, one day at a time, the monumental task of setting our world in order through […]
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