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Italy is for Nature Lovers

January 2, 2025

Italy is a small country with a relatively small population but it has 70% of the world’s artistic and cultural heritage sites! In fact, with 50 sites, it leads the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is followed by China with 47 sites and Spain with 44. But apart from its spectacular beaches, Italy’s natural areas…
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Swedish Death Cleaning

December 19, 2024

My brothers had an estate sale at my parents’ house this week, which brought sadness to my heart. Few of my childhood memories are tied to this house because my parents didn’t live there when I was growing up. But it still held a big piece of my heart. Dad died of heart problems in…
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Christmas Clubs and Hard-Times Gifts

December 7, 2024

In the 1970 musical Scrooge, even that grumpy Christmas-hating miser finally realized that “December the 25th is the dearest day in all the year!” (Watch the trailer here.) I never needed any convincing. Andy Williams singing that Christmas was “the most wonderful time of the year” had always filled our home during the holidays. And…
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I Asked AI, With Interesting Results

November 21, 2024

We’ve been led to believe that AI can do just about anything we ask it to do. And we’re starting to see it more and more, even on platforms like Canva, Pixabay, and here on WordPress. This phenomenon piqued my interest, and I started experimenting to see how AI would depict me or describe my…
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Life’s Turning Points

November 14, 2024

That day, as always, a large crowd gathered around the young rabbi, who was new on the scene. Amazed at His wonderful teaching, the crowd sought Him out wherever He went. And now that news of His miracles had spread, the people pressed on Him even more, almost backing Him into the Sea of Galilee. So Jesus boarded…
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October: A Month of Celebration

November 5, 2024

A celebration of love. Yes, October is the month of love, at least in our house! You see, we got married just one month after we first met. (Not that we “had to” – we just wanted to be together.) We don’t even have any wedding pictures because we got married so quickly. But since…
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