Denise B. posted an article on My Own Little Chair - Oct 23, 2009, 7:34 am
So, I’m sitting here looking out the window at another cloudy Friday with rain forecast for Saturday. The breeze picks up and another shower of leaves falls. The poplar tree in my neighbor’...
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Denise B. posted an article on My Own Little Chair - Sep 29, 2009, 6:57 am
I don’t know how to start this post. Over on the Cielo page, at the bottom, there’s a picture over several women sitting together under a huge stand of bamboo. Rosa is one of the women in...
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Denise B. posted an article on My Own Little Chair - Sep 27, 2009, 7:31 pm
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Denise B. posted an article on My Own Little Chair - Sep 18, 2009, 6:34 pm
So I’ve been turning the past few days over in my mind, looking at them from all directions, thinking about everything Alecto already said about them, and wondering what, if anything, I could po...
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Denise B. posted an article on My Own Little Chair - Sep 14, 2009, 5:43 pm
(Yes, the girls are home. Yes, the girls had fun. Yes, there will be blogging about the trip when the road stops rushing by.) Someone new found my blog while I was out with the girls. She read the &#...
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Denise B. posted an article on My Own Little Chair - Sep 10, 2009, 5:57 am
We’re going to do just that. Alecto, CG, a friend of Alecto’s, and I are all converging on Hatteras tomorrow afternoon. Last July I was blessed with an opportunity to hang w/ Alecto et. a...
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Denise B. posted an article on My Own Little Chair - Sep 1, 2009, 7:13 am
As of yesterday we’re a home school. Little girl has hated high school since she started last year. As summer started winding down and 10th grade loomed imminent, her mood started tanking. So we...
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Denise B. posted an article on My Own Little Chair - Aug 21, 2009, 8:45 pm
I’d post it. But I don’t.
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Denise B. posted an article on My Own Little Chair - Aug 7, 2009, 4:07 pm
I couldn’t help it, really I couldn’t. I had to go and look at it for myself. H.R.3200 – America’s Affordable Health Care Choice Act. A.A.H.C.A If you try and pronounce the ac...
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Denise B. posted an article on My Own Little Chair - Jul 29, 2009, 9:40 am
One of the really nice things about living out of my suitcase this summer has been the total lack of contact with TV. It’s a rule that, when in the DR, the TV stays off. There are no TVs at camp...
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Denise B. posted an article on My Own Little Chair - Jul 27, 2009, 4:29 pm
I’ve been doing that this summer. While it’s true that we do try and go somewhere every summer, that’s usually just for a week. Since the middle of June I’ve spent a week in th...
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Denise B. posted an article on My Own Little Chair - Jul 2, 2009, 9:16 am
Monday afternoon I had to drive into town for a 3:00 appointment. “Driving into town” makes it sound like I live in the middle of nowhere. That was true 20 years ago when we moved to this ...
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Denise B. posted an article on The Sacred Harp - Feb 6, 2008, 8:11 am
OK, I admit it. I’ve been a slacker. Well, maybe not a total slacker. The fact is that January is just not my most productive month, for writing or anything else. It’s cold, it’s da...
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Denise B. posted an article on The Sacred Harp - Jan 12, 2008, 5:10 pm
OK, why do I have a video of a gospel choir on my blog? Because it’s awesome, that’s why. And because it’s the easiest way I know to introduce this song to the kids in Pulse Univers...
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Denise B. posted an article on The Sacred Harp - Dec 28, 2007, 3:30 pm
I got a letter today, from me. Guess I better explain that. For the past few years the first weekend in January has been “Ski Retreat Weekend” for the teens at church. When my baby boy gr...
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Denise B. posted an article on The Sacred Harp - Dec 25, 2007, 5:09 pm
Christmas in Radford The city’s Christmas decorations—stars with multicolored bulbs, circled in tinsel. It wasn’t Christmas until I saw those stars. Three red bells, with lights that blinked. ...
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Denise B. posted an article on The Sacred Harp - Dec 17, 2007, 7:44 am
I love “Phantom of the Opera”, at least the movie version of it. I’ve never seen the stage play. Anyway, there’s something almost spiritual about this story. It could be picked...
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Denise B. posted an article on The Sacred Harp - Nov 29, 2007, 8:52 am
Yesterday I had an hour to occupy myself between appointments, so I sat in the parking lot and listened to the radio. I don’t know exactly where it came from, but one of those things that appear...
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Denise B. posted an article on The Sacred Harp - Nov 14, 2007, 6:06 pm
“Facing the Music”….what do you think about when you hear that phrase? Taking responsibility, accepting the inevitable, going into the dreaded year-end performance evaluation?? I ha...
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Denise B. posted an article on The Sacred Harp - Nov 10, 2007, 1:15 pm
I received these from Mission Emanuel. The first ones are the same view as in my previous post. They need no further explanation, except to say that God was watching over Cielo to protect the people&#...
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Denise B. posted an article on The Sacred Harp - Nov 6, 2007, 1:12 pm
This is Cielo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This picture was taken last January when I was there with the Women’s Ministry of Mission Emanuel. I’ve written about Cielo before. Since ...
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Denise B. posted an article on The Sacred Harp - Nov 1, 2007, 8:25 am
At night the words come out to play Skipping along through my head, as I lay On the pillow, awake, reviewing the day. The price I will pay for these words in the light Of tomorrow—frustration, fati...
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