Julie Lyles Carr

Every year at this time, we sit down with the kids again and talk about the events of 9/11 and watch documentaries and news footage. Sometimes I’ve wondered if it’s been too much for the younger kids…but then again, I don’t think it is. It is important. It is awful. It is the world they were born into. It is…
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Wednesday is my crazy day. As if Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday aren’t. But Wednesday in particular is crazy. I spend more time shuttling around in the van than some occupants of Space Lab. Okay, that was a slight exaggeration. But that is how it feels. JT and I have training runs on Wednesday morning. With the jogging strollers. On…
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I have so many things to show you… And so many things to say. But my Flickr/Picnik account? Things are not going my way. I upload and click and try to edit And it says “Failure to Retrieve”. I click again and again in denial But it will not give me reprieve. So I post what doesn’t need cropping And…
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Yep. We’re back at it. Training for a race. JT, my running partner. And me. The heat is so intense here right now that we are having to really work around the thermometer, trying to avoid the triple digits. Which means having to run early. As in, way before the sun comes up. And I am not a morning person….
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Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins[a] and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?  And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’  In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in…
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