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Since I don’t drink coffee it seems odd to pull from the past a moment when coffee was a special treat, but add to it a doughnut and a four-year-old girl. I’m pretty sure that’s about how old I was when my daddy let me sink my Krispy-Kreme doughnut into his steaming...

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D-Day and A Visit to Normandy Beach

Normandy Crowning a bluff just above Omaha Beach, I’m standing in awe of the location of the eye of the D-Day storm. Behind me is a sea of 9,387 brilliant white-marble headstones radiating in memory of the Americans who gave their lives on the beaches of Normandy to...

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Voice of the Turtledove

Weather permitting, birdsong fills my bedroom each morning when I crack open the window to hear it. The sweet sound is a free gift of nature. And with the unseasonably warm temperatures forcing buds to blossom, there’s yet another readily available reminder of beauty...

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Snow Rose

It’s a hopeful heart that looks for a rose in January, or so I’ve heard. Roses are out there even if it means taking a trip to the grocery’s cooler to find them. Not that roses are harbingers of spring, but they’re living proof that somewhere the climate is...

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Memory

Since I don’t drink coffee it seems odd to pull from the past a moment when coffee was a special treat, but add to it a doughnut and a four-year-old girl. I’m pretty sure that’s about how old I was when my daddy let me sink my Krispy-Kreme doughnut into his steaming...

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“Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, And tolerant of the weak… Because someday in your life you will be all of these.”

George Washington Carver

“Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, And tolerant of the weak… Because someday in your life you will be all of these.”

George Washington Carver

“Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, And tolerant of the weak… Because someday in your life you will be all of these.”

George Washington Carver

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