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Battling Discouragement in Writing

June 2, 2023 | by Mary Hamilton| in confidence, Writing

Tasked with writing our organization’s monthly newsletter, I submitted my first month’s draft for my supervisor’s approval. She took out her red pen and proceeded to slash and burn my draft—crossing out, circling, drawing arrows, writing in… I left her office fighting tears and thinking, "Why doesn’t she just write it herself?"

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Spiritual Lessons from Walking the Dog

March 30, 2022 | by Mary Hamilton| in Christianity, devotional, Excerpt, Faith, newsletter

To help establish our relationship with Cinder after we adopted her, my husband and I attended an obedience class with her. The first thing we learned was to get her attention and help her focus on us rather than her surroundings. I’d hold a treat up near my chin and say, “Look at me.” As …

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Dealing With Criticism

June 12, 2018 | by Mary Hamilton| in Personal Reflections, Writing

The Stuff We Keep Shortly after our parents passed away and we went through the process of disposing of their belongings, my husband and I watched many of our friends go through the experience. We’re at That Age. It’s never easy to sift through someone else’s lifetime collection of Stuff and decide what’s worth keeping, …

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Courage Vs. Confidence

March 3, 2015 | by Mary Hamilton| in confidence, courage

If you’ve read some of my previous posts, you’ll know Hubby and I have recently moved to a new location. We’ve lived in the Houston area for most of the last 33 years. Two of our children were born there, and all three grew up there. Now that they’re all out of the nest and …

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Torn between believing the murder evidence against her husband or trusting the integrity of the man she thought she knew, Kit’s choice puts her at odds with her son. One of them has to be wrong and that could have fatal consequences.

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