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10 Years Blogging and Counting

Today marks 10 years of me being a blogger.  I find it hard to believe.  I have changed a lot in this decade – and my writing has changed with me.  All this time, I’ve kept a general life blog.  Then, when I burned out, I added a second blog focused on my burnout recovery journey (“Pardon My Dust, Please“). And for a while, kept a third blog documenting my pregnancy with Alena (“Introducing CHANnel 3”, now found under the “Family” category starting with this post).  I could never have predicted that today, my writing would all be migrated to this site, which I share with Tim!

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Door Art in your Home

Over the years, Olive has brightened up her home with door art. Door Art? What’s door art? Well, it’s art on the garage doors and art on the doors inside her home. And the theme was frogs. Why frogs? Because Olive’s dad loves frogs. Why? It’s because he loves the acronym of F.R.O.G. – Fully Rely On God.

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My Introvert Life: As a Single

[My Introvert Life is a series exploring my introversion as it presents itself in various life contexts.]

I have a confession:  as a single person, I struggled immensely with accepting my introverted needs.  “Sorry, I need to hang out by myself tonight,” didn’t exactly sound cool, you know?  Mercifully, when I was in school, I had a lot of art classes, which allowed me to work in relative silence on my own.  And for most of my single years, I had the energy of youth on my side, so I could get away with hopping from one event to another without having to give it much thought.  For a while, anyway.

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My Introvert Life

Hello there!  Welcome to this series called My Introvert Life.

On the vast continuum between Introversion and Extroversion, I happen to be on the far introvert end of the spectrum. By definition, being introverted means I gain my energy from being alone. Activities such as sleeping, painting, reading and writing are all solitary endeavours that recharge my soul.  The Introvert/Extrovert dynamic is only one part of what makes up my personality, but it plays a pretty significant role in my understanding of myself and how I carry about my life.  That’s why I think it’s a worthwhile endeavour to take a closer look at it.

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When God Feels Like a Meany

What do you do when God sets you up for something great, only to pull the rug from underneath you?  This past week has felt like that for me.  Being the recovering perfectionist that I am, I had wanted to wait until this story had a happy ending before I wrote about it.  But as I contemplated what was going on, I felt convicted to be more honest and real; to tell it as it is.

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