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Twenty Years of Stories

This is the archive: two decades of questions, lessons, and moments worth writing down. I don't publish here much anymore, but I do still write about my life today, what I'm up to, travel, family, work insights, and more. If you want the current stuff, that's what the newsletters are for and I'd love for you to subscribe.

Sunday Selah

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But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. John 16:7 Our church family is involved in an incredibly precious ministry. It’s called Operation Pray Me Home and it connects members of…
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JPEG of the Week

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~Shoulda Been Posted~ ~Shoulda Been Posted a CoupleThree Weeks Ago~ ~Post Recital~ ~hours of wrestling the twins in a confined audience space~ ~totally worth it~ Sun, 12 Jun 2011 02:43:00 +0000julielylescarr

Professional Grandmother

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I made my mom a grandmother for the first time in the same year that she celebrated a half century of inhabiting the earth. Which now seems pretty young. Since I myself can now see that milestone just a little ways off in the distance. No wonder that event of welcoming her first grandchild may have come with some angst….
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A Dream Come True

Non Profit· Special Needs

For those of you who are regular readers, you’re most likely aware that Mike and I have two children with special needs. 4 of 8 is hearing impaired due to a sensorineural loss call Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct and 7 of 8 experienced an ischemic neonatal stroke at birth and has been in physical and occupational therapy for the last three…
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My Brother, My Friend

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The year was 1987. I had managed, much to the shock of many of my classmates, to catch the eye of the Big Man on Campus. The Big Man on Campus was Mike. And I was pretty much the Socially Awkward Non-Social-Game Playing Bibliophile on Campus. And Mike somehow decided he wanted to get to know me better. In a…
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