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Measurements.

Meters, feet, yards, centimeters, Fahrenheit, miles, liters, cups, minutes, days, hours.

We are surrounded by measurements. We need measurements. If we didn’t have them then we would be incessantly late or always early, our cakes would be disgustingly flat ( Read more... )

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Right now in Breckenridge, we’ve hit the sloppy springish-winterish part of the year. When the days are a little warmer. The sun is slowly melting the mounds of snow into little rivers that race down our dirt road and turn everything to mushy mud. Mud that eventually ( Read more... )

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Hope is as light as a balloon on the end of a string, delicate as an autumn leaf pressed inside a book, as precious as a smile.

Hope is what moves our legs and arms forward, walking through one second to the next, to the next, to the next.

Maybe that is just one of the ( Read more... )

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Snow covers the ground like a thick, fluffy blanket. Everywhere you look there is snow. Piled on the deck, stacked on top of the roof, laying across the paths, and sifting itself onto tree boughs. Falling like cotton balls from the sky, each tiny flake lands next to ( Read more... )

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People are like

books stacked on library shelves

The spines a thousand different colors tucked next to each other

side by side by side

Some are torn and worn with age

hurt and loved a thousand reads over

Others are brand new, slipped onto shelves

Pages crisp and clean, ( Read more... )

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Windows

Stained with rainbows
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Hello one and all! I hope everyone had a yummy Halloween and that you are all ready for another delicious interview…and this one is tres delicious WITH a giveaway…yes, a giveaway! So please stay tuned to the end of the interview to find out how you can win…

Today, I have ( Read more... )

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Hi everyone! It’s not Tuesday, so I don’t get to use my cool “T” alliteration. I thought about changing the title for the this week and next, but Thenner Thursday just isn’t right and Tenner Tursday sounds a little strange, though I know my kids would vote for that one ( Read more... )