In recent days life has changed in our household. Since my last post D and I have become the primary caregivers for her mom following a recent diagnosis of advanced stage four lung cancer. Everything else has taken back seat in our priorities to being with and taking care of her mom and that’s how [...]

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Today I decided to take my bright and shiny iPad out for it’s first blogging test drive to see what this baby could do besides beat me beyond humiliation in Scrabble. And so for the past two hours I’ve been contently sitting here at Starbucks tapping lightly on my glistening little tech toy on my [...]

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I know that there are a number of you who follow this blog through various subscriptions which means SisterFriends comes to you via email or RSS feed rather than you coming to SisterFriends. As someone who regularly follows more than 100 blogs myself I appreciate the convenience of doing it that way but it comes [...]

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For those who’ve been so faithful in following this blog, there’s no doubt you’ve noticed in recent months that my posts have been a little slower in coming. I really have struggled with this because while my desire is to blog regularly there’s been a series of challenges that have had more of an effect [...]

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Tomorrow is my annual children’s gingerbread house party at our church which has made for a nonstop week of making and bagging 28 pounds of icing, gathering last minute supplies, opening and prepping two enormous cases of candy, and then schelpping all of it along with the parts for 35 houses to the church! It’s [...]

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Every Thanksgiving for the past five years D and I have spent the holiday in the small coastal town of Mendocino, California and every year we stay at the same Inn, eat Thanksgiving dinner at the same restaurant, and fill our days doing the same things that we always do. We engage in lively conversation [...]

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This week I unveiled my personal blog,  The Passionate Plate: Savoring Life in Small Bites, which focuses on three areas of interest to me: Food and Health (Savoring), Spirituality and Faith (Saviouring), and Our Adventures at Home and on the Road (Savouring). I hope you stop by sometime. Oh, who am I kidding?! I want [...]

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Today is surgery day and chances are as you read this I’m in the middle of a 8-9 hour nip and tuck marathon. If you have an extra minute between praying for world peace and a parking spot, I’d appreciate a prayer or two with my name attached. It’s not that I have any fear [...]

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There’s less than an hour remaining before Sunday is over, the Sunday we gathered online to take communion together, and I can’t end this day without saying how extraordinary it was and how good God has been to me and to us. I went to church this morning and ran a few errands in the [...]

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A word of explanation before we begin: The following post has been provided so that you can join with others around the world in an online communion scheduled anytime on Sunday, September 20, 2009. All you need to participate is a bit of bread, a cup of juice or wine, and a desire to come [...]

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