“I don’t even have a letter of termination to get unemployment.” Victoria DeLano – Department of Education “I deployed twice. I spent so much time away from my family. I was gone when my mom passed away. I feel very much like the message is that my service isn’t valued.” Che...
I love children. I have three of them. I work at the nursery at church on Sunday. I have taught Sunday school for 5th grade. I am co-room mom for both of my girls’ classes at school. I just love kids. That being said, this week’s project has given me a whole new perspective...
Chances are that he too will become a devotee of the modest family seat. The half-century since we bought this little piece of Maine have passed awfully quickly. I feel at home here, even though I spent my youth being a refugee. Let us hope that the millions of refugees who now roam...
A modest chair? No. NO! NO!!! It’s “…In a MORRIS chair.” Doesn’t everybody know that? Apparently not. I know it because the Morris chair was a big, big part of my childhood. Grandmom McTague (my mother’s mother} lived with us when I was very young, She’d had a str...
snacks, and emergency items (i.e. headlamps and first aid kit) in them. The small inside organizer pocket, complete with zipper, is great for small items, like chapstick, drivers licenses, and money. We were shocked to find that the modest Kelty pack stands up to class II rapids, too!
Am I imposing a developed world appreciation for those “artistic” mottled walls on the modest city shops when they are really just a result of poverty, a fix that is simply unaffordable? Cooper comes to my rescue on the first count. “Mankind has always lived among its own ruins. Since...
I took an Uber back to the hotel and got in at a modest hour of midnight and immediately fell asleep. The next morning, I got up early and thought about going to the Gaslamp for breakfast but instead walked around the North Park area. North Park is one of those older inner-city neigh...
This could easily reverse with more research, and if it all turns out to be fake, I’m okay with that; it’s still working for me in the medium term and I’m not going to go overboard on it. Modest claims for modest evidence. ...
At the heart of the novel, pregnant Lisbet lives a quiet life on the outskirts of the city with her husband and mother-in-law where she takes care of bees on a modest piece of land. Living conditions are hard for many of the people and the church makes unreasonable demands upon them....
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