What a great Christmas gift to us all!

In my morning cruise around blogland, I stopped by Hallie’s site and she introduced me to a beautiful young lady named Laura.  
Laura is keeping a blog on her efforts to make a difference each day leading to Christmas, and honestly, I can’t think of a better Advent calendar than that.  [Although Abby wanted me to [...]

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Here’s something new…

Okay, I’m strange, and maybe a bit conflicted. I admit it.
If you’ve been reading my blog at all, you realize that sometimes, I talk about gardening. Sometimes, I talk about the rest of my life. And sometimes, I talk about infertility. This is kind of a problem for me, because [...]

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Dear anonymous visitor…

I saw where you visited my blog today. 
I saw where you searched on the terms “infertile women no children christmas“, and my heart broke for you. 
I know where your heart is right now – the Christmas holidays are coming up, and you’re wondering how on earth you’re going to live through them without [...]

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The trip of a million blog postings

Well, maybe not a million, but certainly many.  While I was travelling to San Antonio for the annual ACTFL meeting to present on my academic activities, it seems that my non-professional mind was hard at work cooking up blog posts.  Potential titles include

The Dichotomy of Drought
From Ships of the Sea to Movers of the Earth
Thanks [...]

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Emilie is a better blogger than me.

Okay, so I set up a blog for my best girlfriend Emilie (blogservations.wordpress.com) and SHE’S GREAT! Of course, I knew she would be, because everything about her is great, but especially her creative use of the English language. It’s so nice to check in with her once and awhile and see what’s [...]

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