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The First Steps Are the Hardest

by Barbara Hartsook on March 26, 2009 · 19 comments

in Conversation Over Coffee

We never see backstage before a performance, do we? We don’t know what competitors, speakers, musicians go through as the clock ticks toward performance time. How do they prepare those last few seconds? Kali* is a dancer — competing for almost two years in ballet, lyrical, jazz, hip-hop, and acrobatics. The painting below is of [...]

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When It’s Okay to Be About Me

by Barbara Hartsook on March 13, 2009 · 9 comments

in Conversation Over Coffee

Home is the one place where it’s okay to be about me, and my family. It’s okay to decorate in a way that embraces me when I settle into it come day’s end. Or when I wake up to the early dawn. That’s the very thing that makes it home. I like watching HGTV’s home [...]

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We See More Than We Think We See

by Barbara Hartsook on November 20, 2008 · 2 comments

in Conversation Over Coffee

Our eyes see more than we think… Yesterday, I said to a friend that, while driving through a small town just south of me, I felt a throwback to an earlier time, perhaps a time of my grandmother – who knows how far back I was thrown for just an instant. Vintage photo of my [...]

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October Baby, 43 Years Ago…

by Barbara Hartsook on October 22, 2008 · 12 comments

in Conversation Over Coffee

I drew and colored my baby announcements. Fall leaves on the front, the insides blank for a few more days until my Terri’s arrival on the 23rd of that October morning. I had washed and folded the spanking-new diapers, laid them on the bassinet’s lower shelf, next to the Carter infant sleepers and tiny wash [...]

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