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Sidestepping Away from Facebook

Howdy, folks. I’ve been thinking a lot the past couple of days about Facebook and my mental health. For the past while, I’ve been more and more fed up with the sort of environment Facebook fosters. I have many friends on their whom I really value and enjoy connecting with. And then I have people […]

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I’m Exhausted

I’m exhausted. It feels like gravity increased on earth a few months ago, and ever since then, it’s been a slog just to get through the day. It’s not that things are going wrong for me personally. For the most part, things are actually pretty good. My kids are doing well. I’m relatively healthy once

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Holiday Hiatus

It’s that time of year. The time when I start really kicking things into gear for the holidays. I take time off from work, so you’d think I’d have tons of time for everything else I need or want to do, but . . . that’s not how it ends up, a lot of the

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Tomas is Coming Home!

So, strangely enough, tomorrow marks 25 years since I was released as a missionary, and it’ll be the day Tomas is released as a missionary himself. So naturally I’m looking both back and ahead. Back when I was released, my parents came to pick me up in Germany. It was a bizarre feeling, going from

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The House Elf Test

We have a fridge in our garage that I’m pretty sure is magical. Anytime we run out of milk in our main fridge, if I go out there and check the garage fridge, a new gallon of milk has somehow appeared out of the ether, ready for me to grab it and bring it inside.

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