Words by Joy
Either You Are or You Aren’t
My young female co-worker had asked me about a work-related issue. But she didn’t go back to her desk. As she stood…
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Hunger
As my husband’s lungs worsened, he began having difficulty breathing. Here’s how he described it to me. “It’s like trying to breathe…
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Water – Plain or Living
In the not-so-distant past (at my age ten years is not so distant), I used to drink a Big Gulp…
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Worth the Effort
Before COVID, my Saturday mornings were spent at Starbucks with what my husband lovingly referred to as our Starbucks Gang. That…
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Cookie Dough and Dog Poop
You go to the grocery store and purchase the finest ingredients to make some cookies. The best flour. Real butter. Top of the…
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Just Be Held
When the eye doctor first began talking to me about tube shunt surgery, I had no idea what it involved. I…
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Body Odor and Me
Just go with me here. This is going to sound odd, but there is a point. Many years ago, I realized…
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Ripple Effect
A Sunday school teacher named Edward Kimball (ever heard of him?) led a shoe clerk named D. L. Moody to…
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Something Beautiful
I dump the jigsaw puzzle pieces onto the table. The picture on the box shows me what these fragments of cardboard…
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Putting Christmas Away
My laundry room was crowded with containers waiting to be filled with Christmas decorations. My goal was to pace myself as…