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Carol’s Gems: Blue Topaz And Tanzanite

Today’s post, “Carol’s Gems: Blue Topaz and Tanzanite,” is a monthly series on birthstones from one of my favorite blogger friends, Carol Peterson. Carol is a writer with a heart for encouragement, sharing parables of faith on her blog From Carol’s Quill and making learning exciting in Fun with Finance and other teacher resource books. Each month has a [...]

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Thank You For Contributing – November 2012

I don’t typically pay too much attention to the traffic here at I’m Just Thinkin’ but I have noticed a promising trend over the past couple of years, the visitors to this website have steadily increased by 25% from one year to next. Cool! I still enjoy the day to day activity of writing here, [...]

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The IN’s and OF’s people and places

Living 30 minutes from St. Augustine is a real treat. There always seems to be something new to discover there. We went there last weekend, just to knock around for a 1/2 day. Found and fell in love with a new clothing store. Nearly everything they displayed on the racks was appealing. We also enjoyed a [...]

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Book Release: Common Ground… Geology Happens!

My first book was published. Yay, I am so excited to be able to share this news with you! I was talking to one of my good friends at church yesterday about it, and he pointed out that it’s a pretty big deal to publish a book. I tried to downplay it, but I guess [...]

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The #1 Reason To Be Thankful Today…

… and so we’re entering the season of giving. The season of Hope. The season of the Christmas tradition. Yep, it “officially” begins today. Black Friday. Time to get the tree up. Christmas parties and end of the year celebrations. I love this time of year, for all of the good memories, family traditions and [...]

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The 10 + 1 Building Blocks Of Relationships: Comfort (Empathy)

The 10 building blocks are delivered in alphabetical order (with the exception of “+1″, it is last for a reason, more on that later…). Today’s post is #6 in the series… Comfort (Empathy). Empathy is the building block, if you will, of being able to recognize that a person needs comfort, and then having the sentiment, [...]

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Shakespeare’s #PlayOnWords

Hmmm, I wonder what he could have done with one of these #hashtag critters… If you follow my writing closely you know that I enjoy an occasional #playonwords. I’ve coined a few new words myself, some of which you can find at the Urban Dictionary. So I found out recently that Shakespeare originated over 1,700 [...]

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Peace, Truth and Grace: The Battle Just Won

Yesterday was Veteran’s Day. I took the day off, enjoyed the parade in downtown Jacksonville. It was fun! Pretty cool that we spend a whole day every year in gratitude for the soldiers that fought for our country. Those who fought for a worthy cause… So I was thinking about peace since that is something [...]

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Book Review: Deep & Wide by Andy Stanley

OK, I like the church so it’s probably a no brainer that I’m going to like the book, right? Well, I actually LOVE both! This is Andy at his finest. When you read this book you feel like you know him personally. Why? Well, in many ways, this book is about Andy… but in many [...]

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The Keys To The Greatest Heirloom

I’m writing today as a contributor to the Christian Writers Blog Chain. Our theme for this month is “Pursuit.” Christianwriters.com is an excellent place to network if you’re a Christian writer or author. The greatest heirloom that I can come up with that has been passed down from one generation to the next would be our heritage. [...]

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