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  • Perfect Fit–Don’t Forget

    There’s a void within the heart of a single woman that comes from having never received jewelry from someone who deeply cares…loves.  In the mid 90s I tried to fill that place after I finished my Masters in Special Education… Continue reading

    Perfect Fit–Don’t Forget
  • The Nonconformists

    A Midwestern Romeo and Juliet      — these two in the late 1950s.Households who attended differing churches and rival schools;viewing the other as “afwijkend”,* that over the decades morphed to “offies”.*In spite of the labels, they were alike in their foundational,… Continue reading

  • My Momma’s Heart Is So Big

    congestive: an unnatural filling      My mom’s her heart is dangerously enlarged…trust me, she’s no grinch…never has been.  She’s a lover of life and people and especially THE Lord–she loves well. About seven months ago, she was diagnosed with… Continue reading