When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. 
                                                          ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life’s gotten a little dark for a lot of folks lately. Many have lost hope, lost in their own troubles. It took a poet to help me get a new perspective, and when I realized that trouble is here to help me […]

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Chop Wood; Carry Water; Make Ice Cubes
Roughly translated: prepare for the party!

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     “When are you going to get a real job, Honey?” my parents asked for the umpteenth time. Not in those words, but when I started my own business in 1991, Dad was skeptical (even though he’s a farmer and owned his own business for 50 plus years). Both Mom and Dad would prefer I […]

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