Thoughts on writing 500 weekly blog posts
Blog Post # 500–after five years
Thoughts on writing 500 weekly blog posts
The Value of Music and a Girl’s Emotions
What’s the value of music for a girl’s emotions? Everything. We watched the Masterpiece Theater version of A Room with a View last night and laughed every time Lucy Honeychurch turned to the piano to vent her emotions. It was an uneasy laugh–we recognizing aspects of our past. My sister-in-law told me once she only survived her rocky teen years…
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WWI: a YMCA Worker’s Camel Tale
YMCA secretaries worked in unusual ways during WWI? The spiritual rewards may have been profound, but the physical cost was high. According to Sir James Barrett of the British YMCA: “The business of the YMCA is to provide comfort by personal service over and above military necessaries for the men who are well. “The Red Cross Society attends to the…
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The Relief of a Public Shout
Have you ever needed to shout in public? You know, stand up and ask for attention from a group of total strangers? People stop and stare, then shrug and go on their way. But some listen and act. Whenever I’ve shouted, relief has been the result. The first time happened many years ago when this Navy wife rode a car, train, airplane…
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The Hunt for Red October and My Family
Why one Navy family needed a copy of The Hunt for Red October
Exercise and the Writer’s Body
You already know the value of regular exercise, but I’m going to explain how exercise has been so good for this particular writer’s body. In late 2009, my hands stopped working effortlessly. Simple things I’d done my whole life hurt, badly. I couldn’t turn doorknobs without pain. Scissors were a nightmare. I could no longer hold a needle well enough…
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