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make-you-think

Acknowledging a hurting world

by Lesley on August 9, 2011

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Tweet I have a baby who is not sleeping as well as she was two weeks ago. This means I have limited time to blog, limited time to blow dry my hair, and limited time to read the book I checked out from the library almost a month ago. I do, however, have a lot [...]

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Things.

by Lesley on August 3, 2011

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Tweet Today I am proud to share a guest post, written by my dad. This essay was not written intentionally for my blog. It came to me in the form of an email my dad sent to our family earlier today. As background, my Grandma Jeanne  (his mother) was diagnosed several years ago with dementia. [...]

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Just her eyes

by Lesley on May 15, 2011

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Tweet As a little girl, I wanted to be a lot of things when I grew up. For a while I wanted to be the first woman President of the United States; then an author and illustrator of children’s books. As I got older I thought about becoming a TV reporter or a speechwriter. Clearly, [...]

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Simplicity

by Lesley on February 14, 2011

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Tweet Recently life has been a bit more complicated than usual. There’s the closet that I spent a few days organizing that just got disassembled. Complicated. There’s figuring out how to buy just the right amount of food at Trader Joe’s to get us through the week, while still fitting it all in a mini [...]

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Hear the art

by Lesley on December 1, 2010

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There I was again, seeing something I would have normally skipped over. This art didn’t rival the Sistine Chapel but it made me stop and think, which is what any good art will do. Today I hope you hear the art.

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