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Sometimes the longest book is not the one with the most pages. Sometimes it is the book whose insides, if you will, make every page feel like a journey. I have read thick books packed with words that pulled me forward, and others that made me falter, stop, or sit quietly and think. If we…
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A little hindsight, a little humor, and a handful of truths worth carrying… If I could sit across from someone young and just starting out in life, I would not pretend to have all the answers. First of all, no one believes that person anyway. Second, life has a way of humbling even the most…
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A love letter, a warning label, and a plea for the place I call home… This question hit me in the gut this morning: what would make Waynesville, Georgia a better place, what would make it instantly better… Not better in the shiny brochure way. And nothing would make it instantly better. Not better as…
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I know the prompt was supposed to be about traveling—the longest trip I have ever taken, miles logged, bags packed, snacks bought at gas stations, and wrong turns blamed on everybody but the driver. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized the longest trip I have taken is not one I…
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Some people hear the call of the open road deep in their bones. Others hear the call of their own couch and answer it with a blanket, a snack, and no apologies. We are all different that way, and honestly, the couch people may be onto something. For those of us who do like to…
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Again, I grew up in the best of times—or at least it sure feels that way when I look back through the soft, flickering glow of a Saturday morning television screen. Saturday hit early at our house. We did not ease into the day so much as tumble into it, sleepy-eyed and barefoot, staged in…
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You’ve heard the saying, “Fake it until you make it.” I’d tweak it slightly: think it until you become it. Your mindset may not pay the electric bill by itself, trust me when I say the power company remains stubbornly unimpressed by affirmations… but it absolutely shapes the choices that lead to financial progress. A…
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Who says dogs can’t talk? Around here, Jake and Jetson carry on full conversations every single day. They just don’t bother with words. Their language is made of barks, groans, yips, side-eyes, dramatic sighs, tail flicks, fence-line patrols, and the occasional silent protest that could win awards if there were a category for “most offended…
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Telling you with NO REGRETS about Elie Wiesel’s “Night”….. My last read was Elie Wiesel’s Night, and I do not know that I have ever held such a small book that carried such a terrible weight. It is unassuming in the hand, barely more than a breath of pages, yet inside it lives a darkness…
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Airports are funny places. Not funny as in “ha-ha, what a relaxing afternoon,” but funny as in “how did I end up powerwalking past a sushi bar, a luggage store, a coffee shop, a gift shop, three people on speakerphone, and a restroom line long enough to qualify as a parade?” They are the places…
