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Pull up a chair and stay awhile. Well, here we are. In just a couple of days I’ll turn fifty, and I have to admit that’s a sentence I never imagined saying out loud. I remember being a kid and thinking fifty was old. Not just a little older. I mean old enough that you…

Pull up a chair and stay awhile. I’ve been thinking about something lately, and maybe it’s because this is my birthday month. Maybe it’s because the older I get, the more I notice things I never paid much attention to when I was younger. Whatever the reason, I’ve realized that the things I appreciate most…

Pull up a chair and stay awhile. I’ve been thinking about conversations lately, and I’ve come to one conclusion that I don’t think anyone can convince me otherwise. The best conversations never start with small talk. Now, don’t get me wrong. Small talk has its place. It’s perfectly fine when you’re standing in line at…

Pull up a chair and stay awhile. I’ve been thinking about something this week, and if you’re anything like me, maybe you’ve noticed it too. When did we stop celebrating ordinary days? I’m not talking about birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, or Christmas morning. Those deserve celebrating, and I hope we never stop making them special. I’m…

Well friends, we’ve made it to the last day of July, and I have to admit I’m not entirely sure how that happened. It seems like just yesterday we were talking about Memorial Day, trying to decide whether it was finally warm enough to call it summer. Now here we are staring down August, wondering…

Well friends, here we are in the last full week of July, and I have reached that point in summer where I am both amazed by how quickly it is passing and convinced that this heat has been with us for approximately fourteen years. I don’t know how both things can be true at the…

Well friends, we’ve reached the middle of July, and I think it’s safe to say that summer has officially unpacked its bags and made itself comfortable. The heat isn’t visiting anymore. It’s moved in permanently, claimed a seat on the couch, and refuses to leave until sometime around October. Every year I forget this part…

Well friends, another Friday has rolled around, and I have reached that point in summer where I am no longer asking how hot it is outside. Instead, I simply assume the answer is “too hot” and plan my day accordingly. July has settled in fully now. The Fourth of July decorations have been packed away,…