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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Monday, October 27, 2008

NieNie Updates

Early last month, I asked for your thoughts and prayers for a fellow blogger, NieNie, aka Stephanie Nielson, her husband, and her large extended family. Before reading about her on other sites, I had never heard of NieNie. I had never read her blog. Beyond issues of a shared faith, a love of crafting, and blogging, I don't have much in common with her. All of that aside, something about the plea from her beloved sisters and many on-line friends reached out through the Blogosphere and made an impression -- perhaps a bit of her grace made evident by His Grace.

Now I check in with her sister Courtney's blog daily to see how NieNie and her beloved Mr. Nielson are doing. Word of Stephanie's plight and of the courage of the extended Clark/Nielson family continues to spread. Local and national media outlets have done articles and stories, including coverage by my sister-in-law's aunt (it's a small Mormon/cyberworld). In every single blog entry, article, or news clip, something touches my heart and leaves me weepy ... and I am definitely NOT a heart-on-your-sleeve-show-emotions-in-public kind of gal.

So it is with a tissue-box size warning that I let you know that this beautiful article ran in a paper over the weekend -- and you will need tissues. Then this article ran today and is just as hanky-worthy.

Won't you keep Stephanie, Christian, and their families, especially her heroic siblings who are caring for their four children, in your thoughts and prayers? (The prayers are working. Christian says he could feel them.)

If you can, please contribute to the families' recovery fund via one of the various auctions or funds that have been set up. A long road is ahead of them, but all will be well.

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