If I had taken my accounting class more seriously, I would have discovered much sooner that I was actually good at keeping books! Our high school offered many business courses where we learned to type on “old fashioned” typewriters, many of the girls took shorthand classes, and both boys and ...
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The wedding preparations were a ray of light during the dark days of the Great Depression. Most Americans spent their time trying to keep food on their tables and heat in their homes. The young bride-to-be had worked as a maid after high school graduation, earning enough money to help ...
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“The kingdom of heaven is like a [very precious] treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid again; then in his joy he goes and sells all he has and buys that field [securing the treasure for himself]. Matthew 13:44 The record book is old and faded, the pages yellowed. ...
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How do you remember something? Do you tie a string around your finger? Make a note? Write it on your bathroom mirror or say it out loud to yourself over and over? Last March, I helped my parents prepare to move. It was a massive job, sorting through treasures accumulated ...
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Spring has sprung. Well, at least in our neck of the woods, with the dogwood trees in full bloom and our front yard shrubs donning colorful attire. Several dogwoods line our driveway and they’re real pretty now. Which brings to mind, I once heard a story about the ‘dogwood tree’ ...
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