Monthly Archives: August 2013


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So, I have always had incredibly vivid dreams my whole life, except for when I was terribly sick with LYME. Now that I’m feeling better, they have returned. A few weeks ago, I woke up really uptight and upset and couldn’t figure out why until I started remembering the dream […]

Love Shack, baby Love Shack


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As a recovery alcoholic (sober 12 1/2 years) and ex-smoker (smoke free for 15 years), I know a thing or two about how hard it is to break bad habits. The body get so used to a thing, especially an addictive thing, and the mind and the body have to […]

Old Habits Die Hard





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Our sermon series at church this summer has been on the book of Proverbs – and this past Sunday it was specifically on how to stay wise. It reminded me of a post I did a few days ago about keeping your ducks in a row. One of the verses […]

Birds of a Feather




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In my young and rebellious years I was a smoker. When I travelled overseas, all my fellow smokers and I made jokes about the warning labels for smoking in the UK. “Smoking Kills” and “Smoker’s Die Younger” were two of our favorites. In giant big black letters just as plain […]

Warning: “Smoking Kills”