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September 3, 2021

Slanting the Paint Chips

September is upon us. Apparently, according to meteorologists, it is now meteorological fall. I prefer astronomical fall, because that means three more weeks of summer, my very favorite season. Besides, my wedding anniversary is next Monday and I was married in the summer, not the...

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August 17, 2021

Forgiveness Healed My Heart

This article was originally published in the October 2019 issue of The Christian Journal. I had all but given up. I mentally catalogued the various prescription and over-the-counter pills in my medicine cabinet. There were enough to end my hopelessness forever. I truly believed my...

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August 10, 2021

God Used My Trials

This article was originally published in the September 2019 issue of The Christian Journal. We moved from my childhood home in sunny Southern California to a one-traffic-light town on the outskirts of a Washington rainforest right before I started eighth grade. I made new friends,...

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June 25, 2021

Tanka with Paint Chips

It’s Friday again (well, actually Thursday when I’m writing this, but for you readers it’s Friday). We are into the T section of the poetry dictionary and the entry I’ve selected is the tanka. It was hard to choose because I also love the terza...

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April 23, 2021

Object Poems with Paint Chips

It’s Friday once again and time for another paint chip poetry prompt. This week we are in the O section of the poetry dictionary. I was torn between two of the entries, until I actually pulled the paint chips and found one that I could...

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April 16, 2021

Narrative Poetry and Paint Chips

Hey there, poetry friends. Sorry for the missed prompt last week. A family issue was taking up all of my thoughts and energy and I just couldn’t get it done. But I’m back and I don’t plan to make a habit of missing Friday prompts....

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March 30, 2021

Thoughts on “Am I Proud?”

Another week and another C.S. Lewis quote to ponder. This one is from one of my favorite Lewis classics Mere Christianity. I confess that it took me three tries to make it all the way through this thought-provoking book, but it was worth the effort....

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