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Five Minute Friday — Share

Posted on March 12, 2016 by wisdomfromafather

Welcome to this week’s installment of Five Minute Friday. The exciting part is we get to express ourselves on a specific prompt word for five minutes, then share our thoughts with over 100 other writers, also expressing themselves. We congregate … Continue reading →

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Five Minute Friday — News

Posted on March 5, 2016 by wisdomfromafather

Thought it was about to link up with the Five Minute Friday crew at Kate’s place (http://katemotaung.com/2016/03/03/five-minute-friday-news/). After all, it is Saturday. The five minute prompt this week is NEWS, prompted by the good news (??, a double edged sword??) … Continue reading →

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Five Minute Friday — Focus

Posted on February 6, 2016 by wisdomfromafather

Okay, between fighting a head cold and facing the trip from Maine to New York, I haven’t been in the mood to sit down and write … even for Five Minute Friday on Saturday. But, as they say, the show … Continue reading →

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2015 in review

Posted on December 31, 2015 by wisdomfromafather

As we close out 2015, I thought I would share my blogging stats with you. It’s been an interesting year with the usual pluses and minuses. It’s called life. And I tried to share a lot of it with you … Continue reading →

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In the Blink of an Eye — Working Our Way Back 1

Posted on December 2, 2015 by wisdomfromafather

A good wife is the crown of her husband… Proverbs 12:4a The road back east stopped in Toledo and I believe it was a solid time of growth for both Mom and I. It could very well have gone the … Continue reading →

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Five Minute Friday — Dwell

Posted on November 21, 2015 by wisdomfromafather

Sometimes waiting until Saturday to do your Five Minute Friday assignment has an upside. The Saturday machinations of the mind lead in interesting directions. Take today for example. The prompt word for the week — DWELL — led to a … Continue reading →

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Five Minute Friday — Celebrate

Posted on September 19, 2015 by wisdomfromafather

It’s Five Minute Friday time (on Saturday, of course). This week, however, I am going to suspend the rules. I’ll write around the prompt — CELEBRATE — but I know I know I’m not going to stick to five minutes. … Continue reading →

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Five Minute Friday — Find

Posted on August 22, 2015 by wisdomfromafather

Well, it’s Saturday, so it must be time for Five Minute Friday. I enjoy taking five minutes {or so} to develop some thoughts on a specific prompt word. That’s the premise of Five Minute Friday where over 100 of us … Continue reading →

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In the Blink of an Eye … In the Beginning 2

Posted on June 24, 2015 by wisdomfromafather

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the … Continue reading →

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In the Blink of an Eye

Posted on June 3, 2015 by wisdomfromafather

After Karen died, I decided part of my grief therapy would be writing a memoir — not my own, but of our life together. I gathered information from my recollections, her journals and other sources and spent the next six … Continue reading →

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