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50 Stories::Butterflies, Rainbows, and Why It’s Not About Me

As I sit here typing on this dreary Saturday morning, the rain is just starting to fall. The storm system

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50 Stories::The Art of an Ordinary Life

One day I should create a series called “Things I’ve Learned While Vacuuming my Living Room”. Because that’s when I

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50 Stories::Home Alone, Empty-Nester Style

As I reread this post from March 2013, I just had to laugh. Because 1) my husband is traveling a

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50 Stories:: Crazytown

When I started blogging, I was not only dealing with the big-life changes of sending my only child off to

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50 Stories::152 Things I Love About ‘You’ve Got Mail’

This blog post about my favorite movie took me about thirty minutes to write and I think I smiled the entire

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50 Stories::Because I am an Introvert

I’ve learned a lot about myself these past several years. A big part of it is simply that I have

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