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- Because Look May 7, 2023
- He Went to My School! April 29, 2023
- Lose Yourself, Find Yourself April 21, 2023
- It really is all about the Caring April 17, 2023
- And Grace Will Lead Us Home February 25, 2023
- Remembrance and Liturgy ….and (Surprise!) Refinement February 5, 2023
- Goodreads Review: How the Irish Saved Civilization January 21, 2023
- 2023 Word of the Year: FRIEND January 1, 2023
- Review of “Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in The Age of Enlightenment” December 27, 2022
- On Joy, Heritage, and Community: Folk Songs November 11, 2022
- Trained to See October 24, 2022
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Tag Archives: commitment
To Edna Joyce Ritter Davis on her 90th Birthday
Ethereal is how you must have looked with that snow-white hair as you criedDaddy, please don’t leave me. And your young widowed father took you by the handNever to send you off to live with another family again.And so from … Continue reading
Posted in My Personal History
Tagged commitment, faithfulness, Long Life, Mothering, Wifing
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On the Occasion of Two Decades of For Better, For Worse, For Richer, For Poorer
Twenty years ago today we stood on that stage at a little church in Tennessee, with our families and friends as witnesses, and made those pledges above. I remember that I also vowed to support all of his efforts to … Continue reading
Posted in My Personal History
Tagged commitment, home, honesty, Jack, marriage, til death do us part
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I’m Not Sorry About My Parents
My mother was a teenage bride. My mother was a teenage mother. Yes, in that order. Life came full circle in some ways for my parents. In 1987 they returned after more than 35 years in Illinois to the Ritter … Continue reading
Posted in Character, My Personal History, Parenting, Uncategorized
Tagged commitment, marriage
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