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To Dance in the Desert 2007-07-26 14:55:00 I apologize for the break in my blogging. After the switch in medication, I've been tired and achy all the time. I've gotten quite a bit of reading done, but unfortunately no writing. Between an extra kid in the house, a bridal shower to plan and camping next week, I've been overwhelmed and drowning in it. But the Lord threw me a lifeline today, a couple of them actually. The Green Bay Press Gazette featured my blog on the front of their Family section today. I didn't know about it until my mom called to compliment me on the nice picture (the paper version has today's picture as well). Then she offered to take all three kids swimming. So I'm alone in my air-conditioned house for just a little while. My soul is singing.To Dance
in the Desert
by Kathleen Popa is the beautiful story of Dara Brogan Murphy as she struggles to recover from the horror of losing her husband and father in one horrible day. She retreats to the desert to hole up and hide from the world. Instead she meets
The Penny 2007-07-28 20:04:00 I am so frustrated with my doctor right now I could just scream. If I had the energy to that is. Yesterday I spent much of the day sleeping or too groggy to do much more than lie in bed. Today I missed my best friend's bridal shower because of this medication. The shower I had spent weeks planning. I haven't been able to take Ian and the kids to the fun places I wanted to because of this, and now our camping trip next week is in jeopardy as well. I start on a double dose of the medicine on Wednesday, the day we are supposed to leave. I don't want to spend five days up at a campground sleeping on an air mattress with the bathroom several hundred yards away. I'm struggling to not feel like a complete failure to my family and friends because of having rheumatoid arthritis. I know that other people have it and are able to live a fairly normal life, why can't I? I've been praying to God for strength the last few days quite a bit, especially as my mind is under attack from all of those Read more:Penny
The River Wife 2007-08-08 15:32:00 I was tagged by this meme awhile back, and I'm just getting around to it now. If you have a blog, consider yourself tagged! Books, books, books* Bold the ones you’ve read. (* Italicize the ones you want to read. (* Leave in normal text the ones that don’t interest you.* Put in ALL CAPS those you haven’t heard of.* Put a couple of asterisks by the ones you recommend.I put a ++ by those I started but didn't finish.I put a :-) by the ones where I saw the movie. :-)1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) :-) **3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) :-) **4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell):-)5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) :-) ++6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) :-)7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien) :-)8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon) 10. A FINE BALANCE (Rohinton Mistry)11. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Rowling)**12. Angels and Demons (Dan Read more:River
My Heart's at Home 2007-08-07 16:53:00 As I write this, my house is silent, except for the plugging along of the air conditioners. There are no children in the house for the first time in weeks. (Ok, so Mom did take them camping for a couple days last week). Ian left on his flight at nine this morning, after only a slight panic attack when he lost his boarding pass. Molly and Doogie are at their dad's until the weekend, and Mom just picked up Mia for some time together. I can't help but revel in the quiet. Give me thirty minutes and I'll miss them all like mad (Ian too), but for now it's feels good.Molly, Mia and I went school shopping. Talk about sticker shock! I found some great deals, but it still cost both arms and one leg to get them outifitted for school, and I still have to shop for Doogie!Camping last week was fun. We got to see the otter several times, including when he was eating. The beach was terrific. The zoo was the standout best time. The picture above is an albino raccoon. Apparently, they appear at a r Read more:Heart
Return to Me 2007-08-03 09:11:00 We are leaving for camping today. Mom took the kids up with her on Wednesday, but Jesse had two major projects due for school, and I'm still trying to recover from my medication. Plus on Monday I got the flu and spent two days in bed shivering and aching. We look forward to this trip all year long; it's our only real vacation. We go up to Stephenson, Michigan on the UP to a campground called Shaky Lakes. We camp on a strip of land between two lakes so there is water on three sides. Yesterday an otter swam up to our little beach while Mia and cousin Kenzie were swimming. He's become a frequent visitor, even allowing everyone to see him eating a fish while swimming on his back. We wake up every morning to the sound of loons and the most beautiful sunrises. The sunsets too are spectacular, every one a postcard. The adults relax while the kids runs wild. We gather around the campfire at night, and yes, we really do sing the silly camp songs. Then we all retire to our tents to sleep in Read more:Return
And If I Die 2007-08-10 12:38:00 Not too much to say today. I spent yesterday in bed still recovering from Tuesday's shopping trip. I have to plan my life only one day at a time. If I do a lot on one day, the next day will be spent recuperating. I still get frustrated with my weakness, I always prided myself on my strength. Jesse says it was my strength and independence that made him fall in love with me. This illness saps away those things. How can I be strong in my weakness? I know that God is strong for me, but how can I show strength? One blessing that comes from my sick days is that I get a lot of reading done. Between Tuesday night and today I finished five books, small caveat: two of them were graphic novels. In books I can find an escape from the pain and frustration. I think we're going to stick close to home this weekend, other than grocery shopping and church. I'm looking forward to sitting outside, feeling the sun on my face and listening to the sounds of my children laughing. We also have to find a dry
Satan's Circus 2007-08-14 13:52:00 I woke up in pain and felt exhausted this morning, but I needed to go into work, so I prayed for strength and deliverance. I dropped Mia and Molly off a the park. The sky was overcast, and Molly asked if it was going to rain. I foolishly quoted the weatherman from this morning who said that it was going to blow over without bring us any rain. I got to work and refilled some brochures in the waiting rooms. Just as I was going back downstairs to start working on the computer, I saw that it was raining. No, raining doesn't quite cover it: it was POURING in sheets. I jotted a note to my boss that I had to get my girls and clocked out 23 minutes after I had punched in. Running the 50 feet to the van got me completely soaked head to toe. I head to run through puddles that were up to my ankles. I drove to the park and found it empty, so I called Molly on her cell. My very intelligent daughter had gone to her dad's office at the first sound of thunder and took Mia with her. So my deliveran Read more:Satan
, Circus
Breaking Free 2007-08-13 11:18:00 I have a love/hate relationship with school shopping. I have the price of everything, but I love the sense of newness that comes with new clothes and shoes. It's like a big reset button on the year. New clothes, new shoes, new haircut, new outlook on life. God bless both of my kids. They've learned to shop in the clearance section and are happy with what we find. Each kid got a couple of more expensive items, but for the most part we shopped cheaply. Molly's excited about going into high school and the changes it will bring. Doogie's going into his junior year with a goal of getting all of his work turned in on time to bring up his GPA. We're looking at colleges, specifically UW-Superior for their biology program. Mia's just excited about school at all. She keeps going through her backpack trying to use the supplies I bought. She's already swiped one box of crayons and the paintbrush from her watercolors set. But what I love best about school shopping is walking through the supp Read more:Breaking
Off the Record 2007-08-17 13:40:00 Jesse and I learned a valuable lesson this week. A four-year-old + chocolate milk + a computer = crash and panic. On Tuesday, Mia took her cup of chocolate milk with her while she played on the computer. I don't know exactly how it happened, but the next thing I knew, she was crying and covered in milk, as was the keyboard and printer. I cleaned her up, grounded her from the computer, and cleaned off the keyboard and printer as well as I could. No serious damage seemed to have occurred. I blogged Tuesday's entry and was in the process of doing some family tree research when I realized that I couldn't type any t's. Or r's. Or anything on the keyboard Q-Y. I shook it upside down to clean it out again to no avail. I restarted the computer thinking that would help, but unfortunately our password to log on has both a t and an r. I shut down the computer and called Jesse to ask him to pick up a new keyboard on the way home from work. He switched keyboards when he got home and found a b Read more:Record
The Careful Use of Compliments 2007-08-21 12:01:00 Jesse's parents called Sunday afternoon and offered to take Mia to the county fair. It was a bit of a relief to us. Mia was going a bit stir crazy stuck in the house because of rain, Jesse had homework to do, and I'm in pain from weaning myself from the steriods. A couple hours later when she came home, Jesse asked me to go out onto the porch and see something. Some neighbors had nine lop-eared bunnies and offered one to Roger, Jesse's dad, to give to Mia. She picked out a black one, and SURPRISE we now have a little bunny. Despite the initial shock, we're all pretty pleased with our new pet. The kids have all been begging for a pet, other than the peacock, for some time, and because this one doesn't require house-training or spaying, it's a good option for us. Mia insisted on dressing up like the bunny, now named Ebony, so the second picture is of her dressed up as it, piggy-tails as bunny-ears and all. She's going out everyday to pet it through the cage, and when Jesse comes Read more:Careful
Experience the Ultimate Makeover 2007-08-24 19:30:00 Weaning from steriods STINKS! I'd use other words that truly fit, but I try not to use profanity. I've been out of the house exactly once in the last eight days. I can't straighten my arms fully nor can I sit on the couch comfortably, so I spend much of my time in bed. I've done a great deal of reading, but I'm not blogging much, because even spending time in front of the computer for long periods of time is uncomfortable. I don't mean to complain, I know that God uses all things toward good for those who believe in Him, and I've found a lot of blessings in my illness. I've learned to be less independent and more willing to ask help from those around me, which has in turn made me a humbler person. In the last three years, I've become a lot less judgmental of others as well as about political issues. If you look at any issue from a distance, it's easy to make assumptions or judgments, but when you look closely at the individuals involved, it's less easy to think that way. I' Read more:Ultimate
, Makeover
The Dead Whisper On 2007-08-29 13:27:00 As of today I am officially off of prednisone! I feel free and almost giddy. Yesterday, my birthday, was another horrible day. I spent my birthday in bed on pain meds. I've noticed during the weaning process that I wake up every morning in a great deal of pain, so it's hard to get going. This morning it woke me up at five so I took something for it, and something else when it woke me up again at 6:30. When Mia woke me up at eight, I felt pretty good, and while I'm not pain-free, I'm doing really well. We ran errands this morning and had a wonderful time listening to a CD of her favorite music (I Like to Move It, Move It; We are the Champions, Manic Monday, Mercedes Benz, etc). She informed me that she wants to be a mom, a teacher, an animal doctor, a nurse and a bus driver when she grows up. She talks a mile a minute and never stops; sometimes I don't even notice it until someone in the store gives me a smile or laughs at her non-stop chatter. I feel extra blessed today. School is Read more:Whisper
Poison Study 2007-08-30 16:31:00 Mia has started seeing the world in a whole new way, and once it begins, there's no turning back. She's starting to see letters everywhere and is able to identify them. She writes letters in her notebooks and brings them to me to tell her what words she's written. I'm hard-pressed to come up with the pronunciation of miq, aaqiot, and aomt. Yesterday she wanted to write The Cat in the Hat, because she's currently on a Dr. Seuss kick. I told her how to spell cat and hat, but she also wanted to write "in" and "the", so she asked if there was an n in "in". So she's also starting to listen to the way words sound and try to figure out how to spell them. Today we sat down with the book The Cat in the Hat, and I taught her how to sound out the words and identify them. Every time we encountered that phrase in the book, I would let her read it. She felt like such a big girl, she had to tell Jesse on the phone when he called on his lunch. The ability to recognize letters and then words is a Read more:Poison
, Study
The Choice 2007-09-25 14:41:00 I have a confession to make: I like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance. I like several of the other whiny-boy garage and emo bands on the radio today. I know I'm supposed to be listening to classic rock (sometimes I do) or adult pop (Heaven forbid), but I can't bring myself to do it. I grew up listening to the heavy metal hair bands of the eighties, so it's easy for me to groove with the new bad boys of the radio. Listening to Bowling for Soup's 1985 is a bit of a painful experience for me. It hits a little too close to home. ('85 is a little soon for me, but let's say '88?) I liked Madonna before she went all Kabbalah/earth mother/political activist. U2's The Joshua Tree was one of the best albums ever, and I really did think that I was going to marry a member of Duran Duran. Roger Taylor the drummer to be exact; I let him off the hook when he married a princess. And yes, both of my teenagers think that I am completely uncool. Despite my lack of coolness, I can't bring myse Read more:Choice
Cinderella Meets the Caveman 2007-09-21 12:48:00 Think of a classic couple who typifies romance. Who did you think of? Romeo and Juliet? Tristan and Isolde? Heathcliff and Catherine? Lancelot and Guinevere? They are all examples that have stood the test of time and make the average person think of romance. But else do these couples have in common? They're all tragic; nearly every great romance from literature and history ended in tragedy.Why is it that we feel for true love to exist it must face adversity and overcome great obstacles? Many couples in literature ended up dead and there reunited in their love, as if the only way they could be together was in death. Romeo and Juliet had to face their parents' enmity and Romeo's murder of Mercurtio and in failing to overcome these barriers to their love died. Similar fates await other classical lovebirds.Society encourages the perception that true love must travel down a certain path in order to be considered a great romance. First the couple must meet. The meeting will involve a glan Read more:Cinderella
The Betrayed 2007-09-20 12:49:00 I hate going so long between posts, but I'm still fighting with the switch in meds. I know that I am so blessed in my life, I count my blessings every day. I love my husband, children, family, friends, and job. I have so many things I am grateful for, but when the pain from my rheumatoid arthritis is as bad as its been lately, it's hard for me to think about anything else. I don't blog, because I don't feel that I have much to say that wouldn't come across as whining, and I hate whining, especially from me! This post is torture to even write, but I think it's important to explain why sometimes I post every day and other times it's a week between entries. Last night I got enough sleep and woke up without crying in pain for the first time in a week. As of tonight, I'm setting myself an earlier bedtime so that I don't let myself or anyone else down by being unable to do all I need to.The Betrayed
by Lisa Bergren is a thrill-ride in the vein of The DaVinci Code and The Rule of Fou
Life, Libby, and the Pursuit of Happiness 2007-09-14 14:21:00 This week has been another of those weeks from the blazing hot place below. I've been down, really tired, and a sore started inside my mouth (yes, gross but there's a point to this). On my way to the doctor on Wednesday, I nearly fell asleep driving across a major bridge. Considering I normally struggle with insomnia, this is rather out of character for me. The doctor gave me more than three minutes this time and listened much better. I'm off one medication and starting methotrexate. It's a chemotherapy drug given in small doses to help control my immune system. There are lots of scary side effects, but my dosage is small enough that I shouldn't be effected by them. He looked at the sore in my mouth, but dismissed it pretty quickly. But by mid-afternoon yesterday, it was all along my jawline inside both cheeks and bottom lip. Jess though that it might be an allergic reaction, so I took an antihistamine, and sure enough it got better. I called the doctor: he thought it was thrush a Read more:Libby
Sushi for One 2007-09-07 16:01:00 School started on Tuesday, and the pics are of the kids before the bus came. Please excuse Doogie's scowl: he's fighting allergies and was fighting a sneeze. Mia only had a brief orientation on Tuesday, no school on Wednesday, a day with half her class yesterday, and a normal day today. I hope next week doesn't confuse her. She was very nervous about riding the bus for the first time this morning, but Molly said she settled in and was only scared when Molly got off at the high school. When I picked her up, she was her normal chatterbox talking at hyperspeed about her day and all she'd done. I felt a little lost this morning with no one in the house but me, but I think that I can get used to it.I held another pastoral care conference at the hospital where I work yesterday. It was hands down the best meeting we've had. When I started doing this a year ago, the attendance was seven. Yesterday we had eighteen, and people were eating off corners of the table, because there wasn't enou Read more:Sushi
Interred With Their Bones 2007-10-01 14:54:00 I am a huge Green Bay Packer fan, which isn't too unusual for someone from Northeastern Wisconsin; it's almost bred into our DNA. I'm one of those Sunday afternoon watchers who yells at the TV and occasionally jumps up and down. Lord help you if you step in front of the screen during a play! I've been feeling crummy the last few weeks, so I haven't watched any games yet this year; AND THEY'RE 4-0! And so to do my part as a fan, I won't be watching any games this year. As much as I would have liked to see Brett Favre's record breaking touchdown yesterday, I'm just superstitious enough to listen to it on the radio instead. If not watching the game is the price I have to pay for them to win, I love them enough to do it.I've been giving updates on Mia, but today it's Molly's turn. Molly has gone into high school with a new poise. She stands up straighter and smiles more. She won the female lead in the school play (performing Nov 9 & 10 for those of you in the area) and is i Read more:Bones
How Strong Women Pray 2007-09-29 15:12:00 Mia never fails to teach me something new and true about life. The other day I was listening to My Chemical Romance's Welcome to the Black Parade in the van and singing along. She asked me "Mommy, are demons bad?" I assured her that of course they were, to which she asked why they would sing about them if they were bad. I tried to explain that the song is about defeating the demons, about beating them. She responded, "Mommy, I don't like to think about bad things like that. I like to think about pretty things like pink and butterflies and rainbows." And she reminds me what Jesus said that we have to have the faith of a child. Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. -Phillipians 4:8.How StrongWomen
Pray by Bonnie St. John is a powerfully written devotional/memoir. St. John had her foot amputated when she was four, was sexually abused from h
The Lottery 2007-09-28 13:00:00 Today was Mia's first field trip at school. I chaperoned as we went to an apple orchard. 4K is terrific. There were about 10 parents to watch over 20 kids; you don't see that kind of parent participation in later school years. This picture is of Mia and one of her "favoritest" friends Jackie. Mia, Jackie, and Autumn are like the Three Musketeers at school; where you find one, you find the other two. She's exhausted now, but it was a great day. On the way home, I had to leave the van idling at the library so she could listen to all of Gwen Stefani's Sweet Escape. It's amazing how much she loves music, and so many different varieties of it! Here's her top ten list of favorite songs.1. Our House by Madness2. Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne3. Hey There Delilah by Plain What T's4. I Like to Move it (Move it) from the Madagascar soundtrack5. Alligators All Around by Carole King6. Shoulder to Shoulder by Carly Simon7. My Baby Hippo8. Jingle Bells9. Boogie Wonderland by Earth, Wind & Fi Read more:Lottery
Any Day With Hair is a Good Hair Day 2007-09-27 14:31:00 I love old family pictures. Jesse and I pulled all of his grandma's pictures out of the old house (there are two houses on our property: his grandparents and great-grandparents, the second is used for storage). I've been scanning the pictures in and posting them on my family tree on Ancestry. When we're through, we'll burn them all onto CDs for the rest of the family. I love looking at the fashions and hairstyles. I like peering closely at each face looking for resemblances. I'm a bit of a family tree geek. I've hit a few brick walls on our family, so I've been diving into Jesse's aunts and uncles. I found a Hessian soldier from the Revolutionary War in one, very cool. It's the kind of thing I wish I could make a living doing, but unfortunately, most people are interested enough in their history to pay someone else to research it, and why should they when it's so easy!Any Day With Hair is a Good Hair Day by Michelle Rapkin is a primer on what to do immediately after the diagn
The Lost Sheep 2007-10-12 12:24:00 Have you ever had one of those weeks? No, not one of those weeks. Mine's been unusually great. Last Friday I won a board game and two tickets to a Packer tailgate party on the radio. On Tuesday, I won an T-shirt autographed by two of the Green Bay Packers from a different radio station. Yesterday I got an email letting me know that I had won an autographed copy of Laurie R. King's To Play the Fool! I've gotten several very kind messages and emails from authors this week about reviews that I've done on their work. Overall, it's been an uplifting week; one of those where I can't help but feel that God's letting me know that I'm on the right path. Here's hoping for some more wins. I submitted a couple of poems to the Wisconsin Poetry Contest, but I won't hear about that until February.In other big news: Doogie has a date tonight! I can't say much more without him becoming angry with me (more so than he is already from this mention), but let's just say that we're all so happy Read more:Sheep
Kingdom of Bones 2007-10-11 11:39:00 I love dropping Mia off at school in the morning. There's an energy in the air that just isn't found at the middle or high school level. The kids are chatting a mile a minute and towing large backpacks with a variety of cartoon characters. The littlest ones stay close to their mothers, hanging tightly to a hand while looking for a familiar face. The teachers watch faces and smile with acknowledgment. The moms smile at each other with understanding Yes! we got them dressed and they are here and on time! The air is filled with possibility. The subtle snubs and glances are still in the future of middle school. The light seems a little brighter and the laughter louder outside of a school in the morning. The first day I brought Mia to school, I had to walk into class with her and wait for nearly ten minutes before she would allow me to leave. That's gradually shortened, until this week I started leaving her at the door with a kiss good-bye. Yesterday, she forgot the kiss.The Kingdom
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My Life Unscripted 2007-10-09 13:42:00 Why do I love Tricia Goyer? Lots of reasons! She's writing a trilogy of books that take place during the Spanish Civil War that are so beautifully written, it's like watching a movie. She's written the only parenting book that has a permanent spot on my nightstand, Generation NeXt Parenting, . But most of all, I love Tricia, because I see so many parallels in her life to mine, and I admire her so much for what she's doing with her life. Tricia and I have something big in common: we were both teen moms. Seventeen years ago, my life seriously derailed from where I thought I was headed. August of 1990 was one of the most pivotal times of my entire life. I went from having my senior pictures taken and vetting colleges to pursue a degree in archeology to taking a pregnancy test in a mall bathroom, breaking my parents' hearts, and the on the 27th I got married. On the 28th, I turned 17, and on the 29th, I started my senior year. I quickly discovered what being in the fraternity of teena
Before I Die 2007-10-08 14:31:00 About ten years ago, I made a deal with God. I was at the funeral of a friend's mother. She died in her forties from cancer, and the entire family was devastated. Just before the service, when the family is invited up for one final viewing, her mother stood at the casket. I'll never forget her walk back down the aisle. Her face was blank, but her legs just buckled under her, and her sons caught her before she hit the floor. She never made a sound, but it was one of the most profound instances of grief I've ever witnessed. And in that moment, I begged God not to allow my children to die before I do. Death is an inevitable in life, and every culture treats it a little differently, but all of them mourn the tragedy of a child taken before its parent. The Fall of Man caused the brokenness in the entire world, and that is seen most evidently in the death of a child, even an adult child. It's as though a law of nature has been broken. It's devastating in a way nothing else is. We have c
Interview with Nicholas Sparks 2007-10-05 11:59:00 Yesterday I was given an amazing opportunity: to be part of a bloggers' conference call with NicholasSparks
. I got an email with all of the information at 11:45 am. I had already set up babysitting services with Dad for the afternoon. Mia has a tendency to talk a LOT when I'm on the phone. Dad arrived a little early at 1:30 and had time to fix the van for me. At 2:35 I locked myself in the bedroom and made a comfortable writing spot: hard surface for writing, two phones in case one died, two pens for the same reason, list of interview questions, something to sip in case I got a tickle in my throat, and a notebook. We were supposed to call in at 2:55, but at 2:53 I couldn't help myself anymore, so I called in and listened to the Muzak and the names of the other callers be announced as they called in. Nicholas called in at 2:59.The moderators for the day were Kelly Leonard and Miriam Parker (love Miriam!) from Hachette Books. At 3 pm on the dot, Kelly got the conference going by intr
Postcards: True Stories that Never Happened 2007-10-04 12:35:00 There are many things that I can't do as well or anymore with RA, and that often beats me up. But a few months ago, I read a quote by Mother Theresa that has become my motto. I repeat it to myself almost daily: Do small things with great love. Go back and read it again. For me it's profound. There are so many of the large things that I can't do, but I can show my family and friends my love for them in the small things I do. Birthday and anniversary cards, cookies or bread when I make them, more time listening and less time talking.I have found a new want. Brian Dettmer does book autopsies. I know that sounds horrible, but the results are astounding. Someday I want to own a piece of his work. It just brings out all the bibliophile in me. HT to Kimbooktu.Postcards
: True Stories
That Never Happened edited by Jason Rodriguez is just the graphic novel to make you fall in love with the genre. I know you probably hear graphic novel and think: comic book, superheroes, men in tights, gore, g Read more:True Stories
The Trophy Wives' Club 2007-10-03 12:40:00 I stumbled on this video last night and couldn't stop laughing. This is absolutely perfect for moms! It's Anita Renfroe, and I love her!I found an article about Dr. Brian Wansink in this week's Time Magazine. He's written a book called Mindless Eating in which he discusses experiments he did that expose how Americans really eat. We all know that we eat more if served on a larger plate, but did you know that given stale popcorn at a movie theater, those with the jumbo size bucket ate 35% more than those with smaller buckets. He's done studies that are as quirky as they are fascinating, and they say some frightening things about how our brain controls what and how much we eat.And once again proving that Wisconsin is an amazing state, check out this article from Tuesday's Green Bay Press Gazette. A man shot an alligator in the Milwaukee River. Yes, an alligator in Wisconsin.The Trophy
Wives' Club by Kristin Billerbeck is the story of Haley Cutler's self-discovery. Haley married Ja
Down the Nile 2007-10-02 14:35:00 Today would have been my Grandpa Trever's 98th birthday. Is there a person in your life that you use as a straight edge for how you live? Whatever I do, I wonder what he would of thought or what choices he would have made in the same situation. While I tend to end up feeling as though I can never live up to the example he set, I know that's not how he felt about me. Harold Malcon Trever was born Oct. 2, 1909 in Hickory, Wisconsin. He spent most of his life within fifteen miles of that house, and when he died in 1989, he was within sight of it. He lived his life with the motto: your word is your bond. During the Depression, he and Grandma struggled for money (and with each other) because he insisted on extending credit to their customers. He had faith in God and in people. I remember weekly visits to their house as a little girl. I was always bored out of my mind, because I was expected to sit quietly on the couch while the adults visited. As I got older, I started listening to Grandp
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