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Dream Big And Then Run Like Thunder

October 16, 2009

As I rummaged around the office this morning, searching for something to tell you for Only The Good Friday, I came across a colorful crocheted granny square that was left over from a project that was coordinated on this blog two years ago. I sat down and cried. Don’t worry, they were tears [...]

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Camp Sanguinity and The Good Medicine Project

July 5, 2009

Coordinating a summer camp for children with special needs, such as Camp Sanguinity, is an enormous task. Donations have to be obtained to run the operation. Volunteers must be found and trained to run the camp. Activities have to be designed and planned to fit into a schedule that will meet the [...]

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Hunkering Down

September 8, 2008

Some days, I feel like I’m on a carnival ride that is spinning too fast for me. I just want it to stop, so I can go somewhere and rest and hunker down. This week is feeling like that, and it hasn’t even really begun! There is so much to do, and [...]

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Afterglow

July 8, 2008

I’m still giddy.
I can’t show you many of the pictures, because I can’t show recognizable faces of the children. You can see them on my Flickr page (if you will tell me to “friend” you), or tell me to send you a “guest pass.” Seeing the pictures is good but being there was [...]

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Special Delivery

July 7, 2008

Yes, I cried.

We delivered afghans today. There was my sister Renice and my friend Rebecca. Behind them, it’s me, Sherry, her daughter Amanda,and my husband Eric (who wasn’t in the picture).

But, he was having a good time, because I let him ride the golf cart with the cute volunteer. Hmmm. [...]

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Anticipation

July 6, 2008

Isn’t anticipation delicious sometimes?
You know what I mean. You can remember it. Perhaps it was the night before a first date with someone who made your heart go pitter-pat. Maybe it was as you awaited the birth of your child. Maybe it was while you planned for your dream [...]

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The End Is Near For Share A Square

June 22, 2008

I’m so excited! I’m hopping around like popcorn in a pan.

Last Friday, I visited at Cook Children’s Medical Center to finalize the plans for the delivery of afghans to Camp Sanguinity. While I was at it, I delivered a cashier’s check for $1229.47 – money that was donated by my wonderful readers. The [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #43. Summer Plans

June 18, 2008

In just a few short weeks, a year long project will be over for me. We are delivering all those lovely afghans I have been yammering about to the kids at Camp Sanguinity. Click on the Flickr badge on the sidebar to see 140 of them! As soon as all those boxes [...]

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I Knew That People Had Big Hearts

June 14, 2008

Just a few days ago, these three afghans graced the porch of my friend Connie, in Gladewater, Texas. Now, they are in a box on their way to me. An afghan from Jenny McB. is in the mail, too. And, Sherry has one she will deliver in person when we meet (which [...]

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Share A Square Anniversary

June 9, 2008

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”~Kahlil Gibran
A one year anniversary is around the corner.
I’m talking about the Share A Square project, of course.
It’s been an exciting year of watching as people gave of themselves; gave generously from their [...]

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Br’er Rabbit, He Lay Low

May 27, 2008

Did y’all ever get to hear a storyteller relate a Br’er Rabbit tale? I remember a repetition of the line, “And, Br’er Rabbit, he lay low.” That meant that he was biding his time and waiting for his next mischief. I’ve been doing that for a few days.
Actually, I haven’t been “biding [...]

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NOW You can Donate to the Camp Sanguinity Fund

April 15, 2008

UPDATE: THE FUND RAISING HAS ENDED.
Whoot! NOW we are in business!
I’ve told you about it, and it took me several tries and several days to get a PayPal fund set up. You will be seeing this image on my sidebar for the next several months. You can click it to donate [...]

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I Dream Big. Let’s Send Some Kids With Cancer To Summer Camp.

April 9, 2008

UPDATE: THE FUND RAISING HAS ENDED.

I want to raise money to send some children with cancer to a summer camp. We only have three months to do it.
Yes, I’m crazy, if you have been here before you already knew that. I want YOU to help me. Are you crazy, too? [...]

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A Medicine Bag?

March 4, 2008

Don’t y’all go looking at me like I’m crazy! I wanted to make a “medicine bag.” Not for me! For Share A Square.
I’ve shown you the afghans we are making for the children at Camp Sanguinity Cancer camp. Each one has 48 name tags on it to show the 48 people [...]

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Pierced Parcel Post Package

March 1, 2008

He shook his head as he handed me this package. I detected a mock woeful look upon the face of my local postmaster.
“Now, iss is whah ah tell people never ta use at parcel post. Probly whut happined wuz a fitty poun box fell smack dab inna middle a this. Mmm. Mmm. [...]

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I Have No Choice But To Rejoice

February 22, 2008

This morning when I crawled out of bed, I was halfway hoping that my blog had not shown up on my home computer yet, so that I could just climb back in bed and ride out my back pain. It was here, so I felt the need to work on an update for Share [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #36 I’m A Bag Lady

February 7, 2008

Do y’all ever get side-tracked when you go on the internet? I sure do. I just wanted to look up “bags” on the internet, and got all carried away (I’ll tell you why I was looking in a minute). It’s a good thing I can never find my purse, or I’d whup out [...]

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It’s A HAPpening Thing

January 22, 2008

She contacted me out of the blue back in August. I had been having a bad day with Share A Square, and was feeling a little discouraged. I wrote about it on the blog. Deborah e-mailed me to tell me:
“You are not alone.”
Turns out, she wasn’t talking about the voices in my [...]

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Scheherazade Complex

January 14, 2008

Some of you may be familiar with The Tales of The Arabian Nights and the storyteller, Scheherezade. If not, let me give you the Reader’s Digest Condensed version of who she was.
You see, there was a Sultan who didn’t like women much, because his first wife had done him wrong and had [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #33 I’ve Been Working On A Chain Gang

January 10, 2008

Didja get it, huh? “Chain Gang?” It’s my “hook” to draw you in (I sound like Jay Leno begging for pity laughter).

Some of you may be aware that I have been working on a little charity project on my blog. It’s called Share A Square, and it’s about making crocheted granny afghans [...]

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