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I’m sitting her trying to decide whether I want to bake another batch of pecan pie muffins now or wait until tomorrow. But tomorrow night the gifts need to get wrapped. I’ve already back one batch of pecan pie muffins but I’m thinking of adding some cocoa powder for a chocolate option. To keep me…

Reblame means when you place blame on someone or something over and over, as if it will alleviate the problem. Blaming and shaming is something we’ve done to sexual abuse victims over and over again. In this day and age with the #MeToo movement, I find it striking that a sexually assaulted and harrassed woman…

Urban Dictionary saves me again. I’m sitting here tonight dozing off and on again. This morning I tried to resleep after Keck got up and turned up the heater. Resleep means that you toss and turn and get no quality sleep following being awoken before the alarm goes off. Now I’ve been presleeping in front…

This week Keck had an in office procedure on his big toe. He’s fine and it’s healing nicely, but the whole thing reminded me of my friend Eunice. Once Eunice repeatedly asked our Sunday School class to pray for her toe. She said it was healing after she had surgery. Concerned, I ask her when…

I was looking for the right word for something that happened yesterday. I’m still not sure I’ve found it in this one. And, I’m not even sure if it’s an again. It may be a new thing. Reconvey means to impart or transfer back to a previous position or owner. I suppose that’s what happened…

Keck and I joke that retired means tired again. Retirement actually means “the withdrawal from one’s position or occupation or from active working life.” I have two friends who are retiring this month. They’re looking into 2020 with a whole new outlook. No more 9 to 5, late nights, weekends, or work-related travel. Most of…

Repetition is basically repeating. But the root word petition means to make a request. In my mind, then, repetition could mean to request again. As I think about that on this eleventh day of Readvent, I’m drawn to the idea of praying in color. It’s an idea my friend Kay introduced me to many years…

Yeah, I thought it was a fake word until Google and Urban Dictionary. It means what you think it means: to have a successive pizza. Or, to have pizza again. Which is what we did tonight. We ordered pizza. Not sure why except that Keck wasn’t feeling so well and he wanted to have comfort…

Resing is actually a word. It means to sing again or anew. As we celebrate readvent, one of the things we can do is resing the songs of the season. Carols are mostly sung in churches now, but there was a time when singing door-to-door was a popular experience. It’s said to have originated in…