Hello, Friends. Welcome back for another Friday spent with Lisa-Jo and the Five-minute crowd. Today, we’re taking five minutes to write on the prompt Crowd. Do you have five minutes to write, read, or both? Why don’t you join us? 1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking. 2. Link back here and invite others to join in….
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Avoidance
I am avoiding something. I sweep the floor, and I stop for an early lunch. I scroll through Facebook. I stop at the health food store and spend ten minutes spraying healthy (?) perfume samples into the air in aisle one. I decide to bring my girls back with me; I need more available arms on which to spray the…
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Adults behaving badly
When we moved to Switzerland four years ago, my kids hadn’t reached the point where sports were an ordinary part of our lives. They reluctantly participated in whatever athletic endeavor struck my fancy when I received the local YMCA registration. Usually, my choices revolved around nap times and when I needed a break from staring at the four walls of…
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Five Minute Friday: Willing
Hello, Friends. Welcome back for another Friday spent with Lisa-Jo and the Five-minute crowd. Today, we’re taking five minutes to write on the prompt Willing. Do you have five minutes to write, read, or both? Why don’t you join us? 1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking. 2. Link back here and invite others to join in….
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On Lent and the practice of yelling
Lent snuck up on me this year. The stacked drifts of snow fooled me into thinking we live in Narnia where it is always winter, and the pleasures and practices of spring will never arrive. The idea of new life, of resurrection, feels distant. Even more so, Lent, which I never observed as a child growing up in the church….
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