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I’m reading this great book by Philip Yancy called The Jesus I Never Knew. It is so insightful. He has such a great way of looking at things that makes so much sense. It’s sort of like he expr...

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Chromebook day two. This keyboard is great and I like the whole set up. I don’t feel like I have a lot to say exactly but I’m just trying to type to get it going again. The weekend was pretty g...

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I just got a chrome book. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to do a little more writing now. This keyboard is great. Now, if I can just get my glasses right… etc. etc… will there forever be excuses...

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I actually typed the below as part of a comment to somebody, but I have been participating in a 6 week (which we turned into 12 week - 2 weeks per session) Bible study that was truly a life-chang...

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I got an idea of how extra sensitive I am today. Last week and this week especially I have been having issues with people banging into me. I work in Chicago so it gets pretty congested and peopl...

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What do you write when things are going well? Diaries are great when you’re angry, depressed, going through struggles, but when everything’s okay (or better), what the heck do you write? When t...

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This is a drive by. Got to thinking about Sally from OD this morning, may she rest in peace, and so many others. I miss them.

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Well things are much better with my husband and I (after some go-rounds and some talking). Won't bore everybody with the ins and outs of all that. All relationships have their hills and valleys...

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Sometimes I feel so over it with just everybody that I want to go in a hole and hide. I feel like everybody is just picking little pieces off of me until there is going to be nothing left or it'...

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I truly have the best husband in the world but sometimes I just go so blank on him. I don't want to complain because the stuff I would complain about would probably make other women look at me li...

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Just like in OD I end up lagging between entries. There was a time in OD when I couldn't wait until the time of day when I would write an entry. Once I got my first iPhone, though, I ended up n...

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What the heck!! Soon I will be 61... sixty-freakin-one. Seems like just 15 minutes ago I was 10 years old. And then after that, I was mildly old at 40. And I remember feeling, “Where has my li...

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Having a terrible day, filled with dread and ridiculous fears... or maybe not so ridiculous, but fear of things I have no real power over. This happens sometimes when I read/see the news in the ...

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I realized that I have been forcing myself into a state of perpetual depression because knowing (or believing the diagnoses of) I am bipolar I have been confusing being happy with being manic and...

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When my mom died I kept some of her things - jewelry, scarves, sweaters, things like that. It made me feel better to wear them because they reminded me of her. But now I'm finding more and more t...

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We are the most proudly selfish generation ever. Pathetic phrase, "Do it for YOU!" has really been getting on my nerves lately along with those commercials at Christmas that encourage you to get ...

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I wish I knew what the heck I was doing in here. I'm still so confused when I'm trying to read bookmarks. I'd LIKE to read them in the correct order and am trying to, but it gets a little mixed...

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A close friend of ours died suddenly this morning. He was a "young" guy - about 50 with a son who is only in 2nd grade. His wife called my husband from the hospital and said he had been out clean...

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I've been thinking a lot about death lately. Of course that has to do greatly with losing my mom last summer. But it also has to do with having some chest pains (that turned out to be indigesti...

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I'm still going there. I'm reminded of an old Joni Mitchell song, Taxi, and the lyrics, "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone." Well, that's how it is w...

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You know I've been thinking about Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Heath Ledger and other brilliant successful people who have (inadvertently) killed themselves with drugs and I keep wondering why... ...

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Well, I feel a little better finding notes from other OD refugees, a couple of whom were friends over there. I visualize us around a fire, warming our hands and remembering the fine homes we had ...

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This is a somewhat confusing site but I guess I'll get the hang of it. I feel like a refugee in a new country. As an almost 14 year member of OD, I have to learn to navigate "new lands" over he...

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