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February 14, 2021

I’ll Never Stop Loving You

For Valentine’s Day, I decided to share a special story about a most special person in my life: my husband. We’ve been married for 34 years and have known each other almost 36 years. That’s more than half my life! A Chance Meeting We met...

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September 6, 2016

Beggars Would Ride

If wishes were horses beggars would ride Prince Charming would come on the evening tide Yet better than 1,000 wishes are prayers Lifted in faith to a God who cares One simple prayer brought Prince Charming to me Thirty years later I look back and...

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June 20, 2016

Harenochiame – 晴後雨 はれのちあめ

An outdoor June wedding in the Pacific Northwest is always a crap shoot. You pick a date and hope the weather cooperates, or else don’t care whether it does or not. If a little rain (or an impending thunder storm) is going to ruin your...

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November 5, 2015

A Cautionary Tale and Forgiveness

I’ve been pondering my past, my regrets, a lot lately and it was starting to get me down. Regrets will do that, you know. I was really starting to let it get to me, praying that God would just let me forget the things I’ve...

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October 24, 2015

One of These Things Is Not Like the Others

When I was five, a brand new show called Sesame Street first aired on TV. I, and many kids in my generation, loved this show and grew up learning a lot while having fun. One of the segments on Sesame Street included a song with...

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October 17, 2015

Sixty Years

Celebrating newfound love Your vows were never to betray Blessed together by God above Sixty years ago today Many years of abiding grace Have followed that blessed day A life begun in love’s embrace Sixty years ago today As we honor husband and wife Years...

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September 7, 2015

The Wedding Is Only the Beginning

Today is the first Haibun Monday at dVerse Poets Pub. We were supposed to keep the prose portion of our haibun to two paragraphs and focus on nature. I started with nature but expanded my offering to God’s purpose for marriage. The Wedding Is Only...

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August 24, 2013

Bridging the Distance

A couple of weeks ago my husband and I went to see Dwight Yoakam in concert. It was a great concert — but then Dwight always puts on a great concert. True to my nature, I’ve listened to a lot of Dwight both before and...

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August 23, 2013

My Sweet Love – A 55 Poem

The challenge at dVerse Poets Pub Meeting at the Bar this week is to write a “55,” which is a poem-story that is exactly 55 words. In honor of my 27th anniversary coming up soon I decided to write about the story of when my...

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September 6, 2012

Vows of Love – A Poem

Today is my husband’s and my 26th wedding anniversary, and since it is also Thankful Thursday I thought it would be nice to write a little poem for the occasion. It’s been a busy day and so I’m getting a bit of a late start...

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