Tag: living
member name: Janna O'Donnell
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February 15, 2007 07:39 PM EST --
My daughter, like most little 5 year old girls, loves to pretend to be a princess. I am, of course, the rest of the cast of characters since my youngest is too little to repeat the lines correctly . . .
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December 03, 2006 06:21 AM EST --
When someone says the phrase "God's Eye View" they are usually refering to an extreme wide angle shot like a photo of the earth from space. But I think we sometimes forget that . . .
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January 31, 2007 06:06 AM EST --
Now that happiness had come to me, I was grimly determined to trust. I'd been burned before but the only way to get lifegiving warmth was to come near to the fire. Time after time, . . .
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May 10, 2007 10:14 PM EDT --
My awesome husband, through some pretty fancy footwork, has arranged a trip to Europe for our 10th anniversary. My parents will be watching the 4 children (brave aren't they?) while he whisks . . .
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October 06, 2007 10:20 PM EDT --
The constant creaking that attended
her last years is lost to me.
I was two--
maybe a few months over--
when the motion stopped.
But I have pictures of a little me on
her legs in a rocking chair . . .
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December 18, 2006 07:15 PM EST --
1. Even though you and your two year old circle the terminal approximately 200 times before boarding the plane, she will still have enough energy to climb all over you, your spouse and all three siblings . . .
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January 13, 2007 10:28 PM EST --
On Thursday night I became a burglary victim. Someone put a stick through the security bars and lifted my bag and my video camera so that he could steal the camera and the wallet. The money to pay . . .
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January 15, 2007 11:35 AM EST --
We've all been in those situations. You know the ones where you're called on to think on your feet and your mind is a disturbing blank or crowded with responses that you'll later . . .
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January 19, 2007 01:59 PM EST --
Sometimes you wait years for prayers to be answers and other times you feel like you have a hotline to heaven. This was a hotline time. My friends began to urge me to go back . . .
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December 06, 2006 09:40 PM EST --
My mom is 69 years young. In her youth she drag raced with her brother and as an adult she was a teacher and a pastor's wife. You can't get much more daring that that, . . .
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January 16, 2007 01:14 PM EST --
I never thought I deserved to be happy. Well maybe a little happy, but not a lot. There is something about being molested as a child that leaves you with an invisible stain. You . . .
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January 17, 2007 11:13 AM EST --
In my own mind, I had been "damaged goods" for much of my childhood, all of my teen and all of my adult years and those thoughts had controlled my actions and expectations. It was a habit, . . .
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February 19, 2007 09:07 PM EST --
He'd done all of the course work in the seminary. All that was left was CPE--Clinical pastoral education. The pupose of CPE was to familiarize seminary students with visiting people . . .
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December 07, 2006 02:26 PM EST --
Sometimes I hesitate to send things out to friends about my younger son because even though I want to share things about him, I don't think most people would understand. At first it . . .
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February 06, 2007 10:31 AM EST --
My daughter amazes me with her confidence. Not long ago, we attended a jungle themed birthday party for one of my 5 year old daughter's friends. They hired a lady to paint the kids faces . . .
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May 05, 2007 04:09 PM EDT --
Life seems like a series of collisions.
Pigeon with window.
Dish with floor.
Random molecules
Bouncing in some crazy
Spastic dance
Each action
Sets off a chain
Of blind consequences. . . .
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March 22, 2007 07:36 AM EDT --
I was unprepared for the night noises
Cocooned behind double paned windows for so long
Disturbed by hissing traffic
Only
When the trees had lost their leaves
And could no longer protect me . . .
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May 07, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
My mother will never be a Nobel Peace Prize candidate despite her decade-long herioc efforts in negotiating a cease fire in the sibling battles over the precise boundaries of the back seat. . . .
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January 20, 2007 07:21 PM EST --
I had promised myself after the my relationship with Mr. Oh-so-wrong, that I would take a long time getting to know someone before I ever got married. I wanted to be sure that whoever I chose wouldn't . . .
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February 01, 2007 10:01 PM EST --
The same scene has no doubt been played out in many obstetric offices throughout our world. The pregnant woman holds hands with her nervous partner as a doctor begins to read test results. . . .
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