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Going the Distance with Trina Lambert

English - Family, Life, Faith

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Going the Distance · 3h ago

Paradise Not Lost

I’m late . . . but not too late. Thankfully, unlike last year, my body’s not the problem. It’s just that we’ve had some pressing business to handle (back to that “other people’s stuff” on our back porch—stuff which gets in the way of good watering habits) before spring planting could happen. On the

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Going the Distance · 2d ago

Roses for Mama

Last May my back was hurting so much I wasn’t even tempted to buy too many flowers as I usually am. Heck, I could hardly plant any flowers. Luckily, the weather was so cold and unreliable that planting late seemed like a genius idea, even if it was only an accidental result of my injury. [...]

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Going the Distance · 1W ago

A Time to Prune

Spent yesterday mostly away from the computer—does yard work count as an Artist’s Date a la Julia Cameron? Well, I suppose for some it counts as a joyful activity, too, but for me, the benefit in turning to a physical and/or “domestic” task is that non-mental activities often help me jumpstart my cr

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Going the Distance · 1W ago

Evensong: Both Darkness and Light

Some impressions burn into our memories and never leave. Let me try to describe one of my newest. No doubt words will not be enough to convey what I hold inside, but that’s all I have since none of us in our group had a camera. But first, let’s start at the beginning: April 19, [...]

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Going the Distance · 2W ago

Flying Trip to Normal

Wondering where I went? Yes, I really did go away. Sometimes you just have to get out of Dodge, even if you’re just going on a classic road trip across the wide open spaces of the Midwest prairie. Sherman, Jackson, and I left Thursday night for Oklahoma to see my brother Scott and his family. [...]

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Going the Distance · 3W ago

Letting Yesterday Be

When I was a child, I often listened to my father and his parents talking. They spent a lot of time in the past. I used to think how great it would be to be able to say “ten years ago” or “twenty years ago” in my conversations. Oh, I’m up to “forty years ago” [...]

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Going the Distance · 3W ago

“Z” Had to Be ZUMBA!

Yes, I may have had a hard time sticking to plan on almost all of the letters in this A to Z Blogging Challenge, but I always knew I would finish by writing about ZUMBA. (I do know that “Y” is missing so, technically, I did not finish with “Z”–oh well!) Although ZUMBA fitness has [...]

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Going the Distance · 4W ago

Xenophobia: Fear of the Other

Over twenty years ago, my husband and I knew we were on a journey to leave behind our old selves—I was pregnant with our twins. Thus, we planned one last trip in between my tenuous early pregnancy days and whatever might follow in later months with a likely complicated twin pregnancy. So we hit the

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Going the Distance · 4W ago

Vomit Nose

What you ask is that? Well, it’s just one of our corny family expressions. I majored in Spanish and my husband, well his teacher told him if he ever spoke Spanish in Mexico, then the people would shout, “Gringo! Gringo!” Poor guy—you should have heard the hard time the hotel gatekeepers gave him in

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Going the Distance · 4W ago

Wednesday’s Child

I’ve given up on easy sleep tonight, but still hope that a little keyboard time can reduce my impressions of my woes enough to bring about some sweeter dreams. You see, I’ve just had a bit of a revelation about my Wednesdays—something about them turns me into a Wednesday’s child, full of woe—woe and

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