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04-15-2025
Maundy Thursday: What’s the Meaning?
Reflecting on Thursday The disciples were hanging out together, and as the day went on, they understood preparations needed to be made for the Passover...
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04-06-2025
Teamwork within Marriage, Conversation Starters for Marriage, Marriage Monday
Let’s talk Teamwork! In our family, I usually get home from work before Todd. Or, as is the case currently, much of my work is...
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03-24-2025
Marriage Monday: Six Tips for Strengthening Your Marriage
There’s a decision that needs to be made. There’s a problem that needs to be solved. We share our feelings. We look at the facts....
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02-07-2019
As I sit in the warmth of my home today, enjoying the seventh snow day in two weeks for our area students, I came across this wintery column I wrote in 2007 for the Bay City Times. I’m choosing to reprint this one for the...
10-23-2018
I thought maybe this time would be different. I thought maybe I would sleep well last night. I thought maybe the anxiety I feel would be less this time around. Yet, three and a half years after my cancer diagnosis, I still feel the walls...
10-15-2018
Our Granddaughter enjoys the season! It’s that time of year again that a farmer’s daughter (me) begins to think of all that went into the harvest season for our family. As a child, it was wonderful memories of riding in the beet truck, anxious to...
09-24-2018
I walked around the neighborhood and was in awe of how good most of the houses looked. Oh sure, I could see a water line here and there on the outside of the structure to show how high the water had been, but for the...
07-18-2018
Frogs. They may seem like an insignificant little amphibian to most of us, but as a mom of five sons, I can assure you that in the Cramer household, frogs have always been anything but insignificant. As children, my boys couldn’t go for a walk...
