Monthly Archives: December 2009

Free Holiday Gift Ideas

By Susan | December 15, 2009

Giving gifts during the holiday can be a wonderful custom, full of fun and memories. But it can sometimes cause extreme stress due to lack of time and, in this economy, lack of money. But using a little imagination and maybe a little time, can turn this holiday tradition back into the thing it was [...]

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Guardian Angel

By Susan | December 14, 2009

He was tall with blond hair topped in a long crew cut, and he flashed the biggest grin I had ever seen. His drawl proclaimed “southern boy” before he could even finish 5 words.  When he first came (okay, swaggered) into my store last year, dressed in his Raleigh Fire Department uniform, my first thought [...]

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Liberty and Justice for All

By Susan | December 11, 2009

The baby smiles as the morning light hits her face, warming her skin, which smells sweet from her bath. She is picked up and cuddled; her coos bring smiles to her mother’s face.
The baby cries alone in her crib, her miserable wails ignored as her teenage mother, who dropped out of high school, watches [...]

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Same Time, Next Year

By Susan | December 2, 2009

One of my favorite movies is “Same Time Next Year”, a funny, touching moving about a couple who only see each other once a year for a weekend tryst. The movie chronicles the decades they spend together, 3 days at a time, and the changes their lives go through.
 
In a funny way, I live that [...]

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