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Thanksgiving 2017

So many Thanksgivings, and thank the good Lord for it! I am grateful to again be spending the day with some of the people that I love most in this world, happily participating in our holiday traditions. My three favorites: a. Grateful Leaves: where everyone writes 5 things they’re grateful for. After collecting them, I read each aloud, embellishing them with words they should’ve said, and having everyone guess who the leaf belongs to b. Our version of the “Plaza Lighting Ceremony,” which was always held outside our home, since we were hosting a huge crowd of not just our […]

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Old Friends Are Easy

I like being with people who know me. My parents ripped me away from my Ceil Place friends when I was in 9th grade. And while this homebody has been all around the world, I have never found a group of friends who I enjoy being with more. Now that I’m living on the East Coast again, even though we don’t know each other well as adults, it doesn’t matter. It seems that childhood friends know your essence; there’s no need to catch them up to who you are today. To me, there’s something really comforting in that. Wishing you […]

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