May
5
Terrifyingly Magnificent
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April 27th, 2011 will be a day to remember. The day that huge tornado ripped through Tuscaloosa. My Southern home. Being away from it all, I didn’t necessarily know the extent of the damage or the significance of what was actually going on down there. Then I watched the video. All I could do was [...]
Apr
14
Goodness Amidst the Crap
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I feel like for the past month I’ve been walking around in a half daze. I’m always tired. When I wake up in the morning, I long for the night so I can go back to bed. Whenever anyone asks how I am my response is always the same, “Tired.” It has been a hard [...]
Mar
2
Southern Travels
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With my job, we need athletes to come and travel with us. We set up a goal to visit and have team meetings with 50 schools. Contrary to what we want to believe, not everyone has heard of Athletes in Action (such a shocker there!) So with four of us in the office, this means [...]
Feb
16
Conniving Caffeine
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I was never a big coffee drinker. Even the smell of it made me just want to gag (such a teenage phrase!) But over the past few years I grew from a non-coffee drinker to a cup of coffee a day drinker. It was a slow process. While I was home in MN raising support, I [...]
Feb
2
Super Bowl Weekend = Not All Glamorous
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When you hear the phrase, “human trafficking,” what do you think of? Are you like me who had a tainted view of this subject? I always pictured some far away country, dirty, smoky, drugs constantly being consumed and thousands of dollars being exchanged by dirty, evil men. While in the corner cowers a little child [...]