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LuAnn Collins
Jan 7, 20203 min read
A seasonal snow
This morning it is snowing. There is a soft drift of marginally large flakes descending. Oddly, they remind me of ash. That may be the...
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LuAnn Collins
Nov 28, 20193 min read
Trust in a Teacup
I was talking to a friend the other day about trusting God to answer, knowing how to discern God’s voice and when to take action. She...
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LuAnn Collins
Jul 19, 20196 min read
When Madness is the Only Appropriate Response
Yet again another assault on human rights, moral sensibilities, the rule of law, the Earth and yet again another friend advises me that I...
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LuAnn Collins
Dec 11, 201710 min read
Buying A Wedding Cake
It shouldn't be an issue that we have a Black president. Gay marriage shouldn't be an issue. And women being funny shouldn't be an issue....
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LuAnn Collins
Mar 1, 20173 min read
Women's History Month
We look for the achievers, people who have done great things in history when the months to recognize certain groups come around. This is...
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LuAnn Collins
Aug 25, 20167 min read
Forgiveness, the Gift I Give Myself
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. ~ Suzanne Somers I just love it when someone the media portrays as a ditz says something I think...
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LuAnn Collins
Jul 30, 20163 min read
Finding My Happy Place
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world ... as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mahatma...
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LuAnn Collins
May 30, 20167 min read
The Three Big Dogs Integrity Cleanse
I was going to have a day of feeling loving, but then I read about a thing called an integrity cleanse and decided to go with that...
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LuAnn Collins
Mar 31, 20168 min read
Yet Another Treatise on The Walking Dead
My family has all but given up on me. I’m am unabashedly crazy about The Walking Dead. I started with TWD from day one. I’ve been...
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LuAnn Collins
Jan 30, 20167 min read
A Fierce Hope
Google “fierce hope” and this website comes up: Fierce Hope. Yes, another person dying of cancer. Yes, another person writing about...
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LuAnn Collins
Nov 22, 20155 min read
Thanks and giving
Since 1994, I’ve run an annual 13.1 at Thanksgiving. Sometimes in a race. More often on my own. Weather permitting, I stretch, then go...
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LuAnn Collins
Sep 21, 20152 min read
The Guardian of Ideas
She stopped inside the door. Her internal compass spun. The room was dark except for light punching through the windows along either...
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LuAnn Collins
Jul 27, 20152 min read
The Pacesetter
She was gone for over a week. When I went into the women’s changing room, she was putting her bag in a locker talking to the tall...
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LuAnn Collins
Jul 22, 20146 min read
Crisis Averted
I averted a crisis yesterday. Little did I know, but the world was about to come to an end. I’ve been canning. Tomatoes have all but...
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LuAnn Collins
Mar 5, 20146 min read
20 Years Left to Live so I'm Not Doing Another Fundraising Dinner
I was at one of those wonderful fundraiser dinners the other night where high school students serve the food. Near the end of the...
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LuAnn Collins
Jan 12, 20142 min read
The Honest Work of Storytelling
Let me preface this by saying it is about my needing to upgrade my storytelling skills and not about talking to a brutally honest 10-year...
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LuAnn Collins
Dec 18, 20131 min read
Problem-solving
It isn't that problems are bigger than we can handle. It's that we have been endowed by our Creator to see beyond to an ideal that...
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LuAnn Collins
May 1, 20132 min read
Listening to the Plants Sing
My granddaughter sulked as she got into the car. “What’s up?” I asked her. “The rain, it’s ruining everything,” she frowned. “Like...
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