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When I was eleven my family moved to a new house. It was a split level, and I had the basement bedroom. I had a three yellow walls, one wall with yellow roses, and wall-to-wall spring green carpet under my French Provincial 1970s bedroom suite, complete with canopy...Cat People
This morning, the first thing on the agenda is to take Mace to the vet for his first set of shots. Mace is one of three now half-grown kittens who adopted us when we moved here. We didn’t start off being cat people. John never had a cat growing up. In fact,...New and New to Me
For seven years, our family lived here: It was built in 1889, and parts of it didn’t seem to have been replaced since then. It had been patched and smoothed over so that we did not realize what we were getting into until it began to disintegrate around us. We...Evidence of Conviction
“If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?” As Christians, our lives are supposed to be our witness. In the Gospel of John (13:35), Jesus said to His disciples: “By this all men will know that you are...
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What I like to remember on September 11.
September 11: Remember the Love | Life in Every Limb
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Everyone who’s old enough to remember has a 9/11 story. Mine is probably fairly typical of those of us with no personal connection to the events, and I’ve never written about it because it feels t...
And now the post you've all been waiting for--a belated review of 2022 in 12 pictures!
12 in 2022: A Year in Pictures | Life in Every Limb
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Ten years ago, I joined a link up to post 12 pictures, one for each month of the previous year. When that link up ended, I found another one. Now that one no longer exists, but I’m still doing this ...
It's an annual tradition, very late, and it's a great way to learn more about me and my blog.
2022 in Review: Your Favorites, My Favorites | Life in Every Limb
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I present to you an annual tradition that is happening later and later: the best/favorite posts from the prior year, as picked by you (my readers) and me. YOUR favorites are simply the posts that got ...
Is a faith nurtured primarily by media slanted in one direction or the other likely to bear good fruit, like humility and love, or rotten fruit, like pride and hatred?
By Their Fruits | Life in Every Limb
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“By their fruits you will know them,” we read in the Gospel. “ . . .[E]very good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tre...
We are all called to evangelize but there are many ways to go about it!
A Tale of Three Evangelists | Life in Every Limb
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I have mentioned before that my favorite Gospel stories involve Peter, my favorite saint. I love Peter because he is relatable. He is human and makes mistakes, some bigger than others. Yet Jesus chose...
