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Do We Always Do What We’ve Always Done?

by Barbara Hartsook on June 11, 2009 · 11 comments

Must we always do things we’ve always done just because we’ve always done them?

I used to cook. And decorate the food.
When Wes and I were first married, I learned to cook on a budget because money was definitely scarce, and much of what little we both made as teachers had to be saved to buy [...]

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Where are all the Friends from Childhood?

by Barbara Hartsook on December 20, 2008 · 7 comments

Seeing Georgia’s name on my email took me back immediately to the fun we had as kids. Georgia always made me laugh. Full of the dickens, she was, commenting with dry wit on ordinary things and giving everyone a different perspective.
But the email didn’t come from Georgia — it came from a funeral home memory [...]

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Dani fills a blank journal with scraps and snippets. Pages of print fonts. Paragraphs she’s cut out or creative pieces she’s written herself, and pictures cut from specialty papers or photos she’s taken. Both sides of every page are filled with whatever pleases her visually. I see no particular continuity to it, yet I love [...]

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What Difference Will it Make, My Over Coffee Blog?

by Barbara Hartsook on May 21, 2008 · 13 comments

This was one of those mornings when coffee and a good book would have been enough. The air was quiet, the sun just yawning, ready to rise with me, and my comfy morning chair beckoned…

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