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Guest Blogger: Sarah Lenssen from #Ask5for5 Family photos by Mike Fiechtner Photography Thank you Jillian and nearly 150 other bloggers from around the world for allowing me to share a story with you today, during Social Media Week. A hungry child in East Africa can’t wait. Her hunger consumes her...

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I have been receiving some very caring messages lately from many of you, and I wanted to thank you. I say this with the utmost sincerity. I am so thankful for you, my beautiful friends, who keep on reading, regardless of all my imperfections, sending me love when I need it most. Without you, I could not do...

Photographs of Nantucket

It’s 5am and I’m off to my favorite island in the world, Nantucket. Can’t wait to write and write and write. Who knows maybe a little D.H. Lawrence might come out of me. Love to...

Where to Draw the Line with Kids

The other morning Tucker came downstairs with a handle bar mustache and a goatee drawn in magic marker on his face. “I don’t know how I do that in my sleep Mama,” he innocently stated and I looked over at Brevitt who was giving me his huge mischievous smile. Somehow he had convinced his little brother...

Writing to Insanity

I looked at the clock and realized that once again I had been so absorbed with my writing that I had written myself into being late. I raced around the house gathering together the swimsuits, filling the water bottles and chopping the fruit for the cooler all the while trying desperately to hustle the boys....