The Dance Instructor
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Haven’t you found that as you read a good story, your imagination takes flight? Pausing after reading a chapter in a book, I pictured myself in the scene. In the story, an elderly man was teaching a teenager how to waltz. The words on the page drew me back to some favorite memories of my […]
The Thief of Joy
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I suffer from a familiar ailment, comparing myself to others. We all know people who seem to have so many gifts. Recently, I was thinking about a friend of mine I have known for many years. We were both young military wives and mothers stationed together, away from other family members and support systems. She […]