It amazes me how strings of letters combined to form specific words, then strung into run on sentences and eventually run on paragraphs can change the course of someone’s day, possibly their life.

I feel so strange right now. It’s the combination of confused, because it just doesn’t make any sense; frustrated, because all forms of communication have been eliminated (at least on one side of the equation); and, for lack of a better word, free, because the burden of trying to fix someone is no longer there.

It is not my job to fix people, especially not the people in my life that I call ‘friend.’ This has been the hardest lesson I have ever learned. It doesn’t matter how right I think I am, how clearly I can see the situation and the solution, I cannot force someone to act on my judgment.

It is my job; no it is an honor, to stand by those people, to make sure that they know that I will be here for them, whatever their need. And I will do this until I am told to do otherwise. I will continue to...

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The three choices for this week's Slice of Life Sunday were Meeting Your Best Friend, Illness of Your Child or Family Reunion. I chose the first one, because it's one of my favorite stories to tell.

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This was the love note left for me by my wonderful husband. He also washed the car that day, so that was the true love note.

We are living on a dirt road now and it has been an interesting winter. There were lots of days where the 'avoid the fishtail' knowledge I learned in Driver's Ed came back to me. Not that I was driving, because the fear of spinning around in my rockin' Olds Cutlass is just a little too scary for me, especially if I'm the one behind the wheel.

The garden we were planning all winter has not been started. This is probably not a good thing, since it's spring and all. The latest issue of Mother Earth News has instructions for creating the perfect garden and I think I want to try it their way. I don't want a huge garden, I'm not planning to sell anything, I would just like some fresh lettuce and carrots an ...