Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Jan 29, 2012, 1:59 am
It’s a breath of fresh air and a sight for sore eyes to see the white fencing that runs across the front and lines the driveway. The short drive up to the farm is all uphill and the place feels like it’s much closer to the sky, leaving behind the small city’s noise and hubbub. Odin’s pastu...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Nov 1, 2011, 7:59 am
As the sun set, the night quickly became chilly. Yet, those who parked in the distant lot chose to wait in line to be shuttled to the Air Force Ball held at the Little Rock Air Force Base last Friday by one of the three carriages provided by The Princess’s Carriage. One look and you’ll unders...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Oct 23, 2011, 11:25 am
On Flikr, the most often used camera is the iPhone. After showing you all the photos of Heber Springs taken with my iPhone4 – and becoming used to seeing that quality of photo – I decided to dig my ‘real’ camera out for a few shots this morning. The difference is astounding, even on the...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Oct 22, 2011, 3:07 am
This week, I started working out of a satellite office in Heber Springs, Arkansas. It’s about a 30 minute drive over winding country roads through the mountains, and the trip is filled with amazing sights. The most shocking sight to see is Sugarloaf Mountain. Sugarloaf was the first thing I s...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Oct 19, 2011, 4:33 am
"Things are getting better, yet people always think things are getting worse." When I heard that, it stopped me in my tracks. It seems to be completely opposite of the way I’ve been thinking lately: Things are getting worse, yet people think things are better. I think it’s worth looking at, pe...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Oct 1, 2011, 9:20 am
No, no one can live on $162 a month. It’s not possible. $162 a month for a single mother with a young child with mandatory participation in work search, school (GED, vocational education), paid work, on the job training, or unpaid work, minimum of 30 hours a week. That is “being on welfare�...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Sep 25, 2011, 9:43 am
The last few days, I’ve held my breath, waiting for the news about the “Occupy Wall Street” protest to hit the headlines; but I’ve been waiting in vain. Then, last night, I found a very short AP article about how 80 of the protesters were arrested. YouTube is far more forthcoming with news o...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Sep 10, 2011, 10:08 am
The horror is no less palpable today than it was last year or ten years ago. The specifics may have blurred with the passage of time, but not the pain, the despair, the trauma of the birth of a new and different way of thinking about life. The 10-year anniversary of 9/11 brings a torrent of emotio...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Sep 7, 2011, 8:45 am
My thoughts are with my friend Larry, who is awaiting quadruple bypass surgery in St. Vincent’s hospital in Little Rock. A tight chest and shortness of breath led him to the hospital before he had a major cardiac episode, but blockage is pretty severe. Surgery was originally slotted for 7:00 today...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Sep 5, 2011, 8:16 pm
Like all horse-crazy little girls, I read all the Black Stallion books, cover to cover, over and over. Walter Farley gave the dream of feeling the power, the strength, the wind, the warmth and the heat of riding a horse. But, not just any horse. It was a big, black, incredibly fast stallion. I...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Aug 28, 2011, 9:59 am
Knock, knock, knock… Loud and insistent, I feared for the integrity of the old front door already warped and cracked and weak. Looking between the slats of the window blinds, I saw no car in the driveway and was about to walk away when the loud, insistent knocking came again. I opened the do...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Aug 21, 2011, 11:05 pm
There are two things that burn, and I mean burn me bad. First is harming a child. The second is harming an animal. Do you see the pattern here? Both are dependent on adults, on us, to protect them and to provide for them. That is an absolute. There is no room in that absolute for harm in any w...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Aug 17, 2011, 8:48 am
There wouldn’t be an ocean without all the drops, and every drip effects every drop. It’s simple. Two things can’t occupy the same space at the same time, so everything must shift with every movement. And what isn’t in motion? Boiled down, that’s what it amounts to; a drop, a drip, a...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Aug 13, 2011, 9:36 am
Being online has become such a big part of our world that it’s almost unimaginable what life was like without it. For me, the most significant aspect of the role the Internet plays in my life has been the immediate access to information and knowledge. All you need is an Internet connection, ...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Aug 7, 2011, 10:36 pm
You know, as soon as I saw this photo come across my Google+ stream, I fell in love with it. There is so much going on in this photo that it tells its story quite well. But, the story it tells me is probably very different from the story that it tells you. I’m curious to know just what story this ...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Aug 6, 2011, 9:37 am
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Aug 5, 2011, 11:10 pm
So, this man comes in to my office today and sits there looking like Matt Damon, only shorter, younger, and not an actor. He’s one of the many guys around here working for one of the many fly-by-night companies working the Fayetteville Shale Play. Ah, what a winning pair of blue eyes ...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Aug 3, 2011, 11:12 am
Integrity : firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values; incorruptibility : an unimpaired condition; soundness : the quality or state of being complete or undivided; completeness I’m a news junkie. I didn’t used to be. I used to feel the news was nothing but doom a...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Aug 3, 2011, 3:03 am
The idea hits. It will be great. I can start here, I think, then while it’s starting to simmer…  ~poof~ …it’s gone. Just like that. It was a good idea, one that just had to be. Or so I thought. Then again, thinking is a relative concept; one far more abstract than tangible. No shit. &...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Jul 24, 2011, 9:53 am
I love me a good car. When I get my hands on a good car, I run it until it won’t run no more. When a particular make of car runs and runs and runs, chances are good I’ll get another. That’s value, right? So, when I saw a Honda Accord on the used car lot, I headed right to it. The l...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Jul 16, 2011, 1:01 pm
I can’t be something that I’m not; because, what I am is so much more. It is during the teen years that personhood is developed, defined and refined so that by adulthood, necessary coping mechanisms, traits and talents are working their charm on the world. Navigating life is done by taking...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Jul 11, 2011, 10:03 pm
“Oh, hey,” he says to me. “Do you live in the house with the dead bird hanging from the wire? It’s been there for a week.” In my job, I hear all kinds of things. I thought I had heard it all. Then, this man sat with me that, turns out, lives a few houses down from me. Wh...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Jul 9, 2011, 5:58 pm
“You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.” Redheaded Riter  “What has become quite clear is that the "Dark Triad"-- which consists of the combination of Machiavellianism, subclinical narci...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Jul 5, 2011, 10:21 pm
The Internet is outraged by the jury’s verdict of not guilty in the Casey Anthony trial. It is a horrific thought that a mother could murder her child, then get away with it. The lying, conniving little tramp got away with murder, the innumerable comments say in outrage. She gets away with m...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Jul 3, 2011, 11:48 am
The Casey Anthony trial speaks volumes about how far away we’ve become a subjective culture. The trial is a media circus resulting in a sequestered jury, 12 peers spending the last month in hotel rooms, away from their families and lives, and hopefully safely away from the endless commentary...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Jul 2, 2011, 10:36 am
The week started as all weeks start. The more things change; the more things stay the same, as the saying goes. But, this week wasn’t to be the same. Thursday morning, a text came in: “I hear y’all got some ice cream makers there today. I heard they’re all at the unemployment off...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Jun 26, 2011, 4:25 pm
Relief. The breeze coming off the pond this morning felt good against my sweat-damp skin. The sight of the calm beauty felt good to my soul. I wished for the relief of a cool breeze. I had set out to ride Odin this morning. I left the house a little before 8:00 with the saddle in the back seat of ...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Jun 19, 2011, 8:09 am
At the end of June, 2007 is when I started this blog about the lumps and the bumps that come along with it all. “All,” for me, is an overactive mind and a passionate heart that causes major damage when there is no outlet. So, I took to writing. I couldn’t settle for jots and rambl...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Jun 12, 2011, 9:04 am
From the west it came, blocking the sun’s rays, darkening the sky hours before sunset. The cold met the hot in fury; deafening thunder, blinding lightning. Wind-bent trees were weighed down more under heavy rain that quickly collected to form raging streams and rivulets. The torrent lasted a...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Jun 4, 2011, 12:35 am
See those woods back there? They call loudly to me of swaths of ground that have never seen the soles of shoes, of adventure, and in this blistering heat, of cool, quiet relief. Don’t look too long at those woods though, because looks are deceiving. Looking draws you in, sucks you in, lets y...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - May 30, 2011, 8:52 am
The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self....
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - May 25, 2011, 12:23 pm
There’s a storm blowing in. Storms have been blowing in all over the place, within and without. I’ve been thinking that Mother Nature’s storms are pointing the finger at our own storms, making us take notice. Rumor has it that insurance companies are no longer paying out replacemen...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - May 21, 2011, 11:10 am
Rapture – to transport with excitement, carried away from one’s self by agreeable excitement; extreme joy or pleasure.I did what most people will do when looking for a definition, an explanation or an understanding for something not quite known how it applies to current circumstances – I picke...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - May 15, 2011, 10:58 pm
If you know me, you know that I cherish two things in life: my son and my horse. And then there’s the three dogs that are my constant companions. They rate pretty high up there too. But, Tim and Odin are my heart and soul. If you know me, you know I’m a very passionate, emo-type per...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - May 11, 2011, 8:38 am
It’s that simple. Really. I see it all the time. I can see it. That simplicity is the key, when it’s all said and done. You can call it “filtering,” or maybe “prioritizing.” Simply put, it’s choice. Every instant holds a choice. There’s the dark, negative, hurtful, discouragin...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - May 7, 2011, 10:57 am
I-40, the major highway from Memphis to Little Rock, is flooded, along with miles and miles of countryside. Just last week, the state was hit with tornadoes and storms that fed this major bout of flooding we’re seeing now. It’s a horrible devastation that takes days to unfold, do its damag...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - May 3, 2011, 10:23 pm
Why is it that food cooked by someone else always tastes great? It may actually be pretty crappy, but since I don’t cook it myself, it is heavenly. I was in heaven yesterday when I came home from work. Tim, my son, had taken the leap and fixed up some Hamburger Helper, and a bowl of i...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Apr 24, 2011, 11:39 am
Did you see all the headlines this week about how iPhones record and store location data? Oh my, how it sent Congress – politicians – into an uproar about personal security violations! The media blasted out calls for Steve Jobs to explain himself, damn it. It hit a fever pitch, this suppos...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Apr 20, 2011, 10:39 am
It all started spinning when I watched a Frontline video about “The Silence,” a story about the rampant child sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests. The adults in the clip were abused as children around the same time that I was growing up and spending a lot of time with a priest my...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Apr 17, 2011, 9:12 am
Who would’ve thought that setting the feather duster next to a candle given to me atop a stereo speaker could end up so meaningful? Dust off the ol’ skills good before lighting the fire and broadcasting it loudly. It is a Bose speaker after all. Notice the seal still on and the wick unchar...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Apr 17, 2011, 12:00 am
Her youthful face looked freshly scrubbed, shiny and innocent. Just 19, she was already a mother and intelligent enough to know that her road may be more difficult, but not impossible. She was a go-getter, never still for long and loaded with youthful energy, all the while responsible and bala...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Apr 13, 2011, 9:27 am
My heart sunk when I looked at my screen and saw his birth year: 1985. A scant 25 years old he was, and hauling around 500 or so pounds. He came in with his mother, but he was the one that sat in my office chair, not really able to support his own weight for very long. To the standard q...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Apr 6, 2011, 8:12 pm
I am so exhausted. I am exhausted from the frustration. This frustration comes from the constant, flagrant, blatant hypocrisy that exists under the name of the Conservative Christian right. Less government, less public services, less taxes, less deficit….less life. I want to scream, it is so...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Apr 3, 2011, 10:11 pm
Breathtaking. Seismic. Awesome. Thrilling. Watching Odin run around takes my breath away. He put on a show for me today, and it was a sight to see. I wish I had my camera in my hand; it was in the car, and my iPhone stayed in my pocket. (This photo was taken last year, one of my favorit...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Apr 2, 2011, 12:47 am
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Mar 27, 2011, 8:33 pm
Arkansas is beautiful. Mostly agricultural, it isn’t a state high in the pecking order of gross income, but it is beautiful. The norm is miles and miles of open land, peppered here and there with ranches and small towns. An east/west highway cuts through the center of the state with Little R...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Mar 26, 2011, 3:21 pm
  To everything There is a season And a time to every purpose Under Heaven        ~Ecclesiastes To think in a linear manner as we do is like trying to force a square peg into a round hole since all of life is cyclical, circular in nature, from the round planet we inhabit to the planet�...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Mar 23, 2011, 9:11 pm
Today, Damon Adams, a former Brooklyn, NY child welfare worker and his supervisor were charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of 4-year-old Marchella Pierce. The girl weighed just 18 pounds when she was found dead in her family’s apartment on Sept. 2, 2010. A known drug abus...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Mar 22, 2011, 7:28 pm
I think there should be a padded room with locked doors somewhere for critics. It seems the only thing left to do when one has no talent is criticize. A good case in point is the recent viral video of Rebecca Black singing “Friday.” YouTube stats say that, as of this writing, the vi...
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Theresa K. posted an article on A Bumpy Path - Mar 19, 2011, 8:35 pm
Information overload, plain and simple. I’d say that pretty well sums up the amount of …stuff… buzzing around on a daily basis. There’s so much …stuff… that it quickly numbs, desensitizes, sanitizes and effectively neutralizes any hope of making sense of any of it. One coping mech...
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