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There is an old adage that my mother used to drill into me, “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all!” I can still hear her voice when I think of how I use my words. I like to [...]

I glanced at this week’s challenge during the busy Thanksgiving weekend while two granddaughters baked pies in my kitchen and another, visiting from college, scrambled to get some homework done. [...]

I remember doing a speech at a Toastmasters meeting, where I played a role as if I was a public relations person speaking at a news conference about a potential problem with a fictional company. [...]

Who I am, deep inside, is more than the sum of the words that identify parts of my life. Yes I am a wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, storyteller, and writer. Those are things I do, and give [...]