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Mom Like Manning

Winter in Tennessee is not our best time for offering beauty.  The grasses are mostly brown, the trees are bare and the sky is more often gray than blue.  Thankfully, seasons change, they don’t last, and though I wish fall lasted longer, and that spring would come earlier, and that summer weren’t so hot, and…

Parenting

Yes Ma’am

For the past few frigid days I have been driving Owen (now 14 and almost 6 feet tall) to the end of the street to wait for the bus in my car so he isn’t walking and standing in the below freezing cold air.  As we sit there we often have conversations about relationships and…

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Moving

“I can see the sun moving!” Owen caught the yellow glare of it in streaks climbing the porch rail surrounded by shadow. “It started here and has moved all the way up here already.”

“Wouldn’t it be neat if we had a camera that would capture it all d…