Julie Lyles Carr

Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? Luke 18:8 My cell phone went missing after church. Missing. Ringer off. Battery dead. Missing. My new cell phone.  With all sorts of gidgets and gadgets and apps and such. The search was on.  A frantic…
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~photography by 5 of 8~ ~Snow~ ~his muse~ Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:48:00 +0000julielylescarr

Looks like all the snow dances that occurred here yesterday actually worked… And 6 of 8 and 5 of 8 are documenting every five minutes of it. This is a verifiable blizzard in these parts… I suppose I should get out there with my big camera and take some artistic shots. But it is really cold. Really cold. And I…
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I’m trying to keep my kids from seeing any kind of news coverage today. Not because of the unrest in Egypt. Not because of troubling world events. But because of our exuberant, hopefully and potentially wrong local meteorologists. Because they are chirping about percentages and possibilities of, dare I type it, snow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard you folks in…
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This kid… …got up at 5 am this morning to work on his math. He thought it would be cool to have his work finished before the sun came up. …and after he was done, he made himself a cup of decaf coffee. With a splash of cream. And proceeded to read his latest joke book. …and ran me through…
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