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That Heartache You’ve Been Carrying? Here’s a Way to Let it Go
[Some of you have told me these Tuesday letters are going into your spam or junk folders or not reaching you at all. Please add my new...
Maggie Wallem Rowe
Jan 30, 2024
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If You Do What You’ve Always Done, You’ll Get What You’ve Always Gotten
So, what’s new? Seriously, this is not an idle question. We’re three weeks into the new year already, and I’m wondering how January is...
Maggie Wallem Rowe
Jan 23, 2024
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What Stories Do Your Scars Tell?
When a baby is born, the first thing a mama does is examine her wee one head to foot, counting fingers and toes, studying her beloved...
Maggie Wallem Rowe
Jan 16, 2024
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If You’re Not Dead, You’re Not Done (and other truisms from Aging Anonymous) + a giveaway!
Did you know that 25 years ago, the mega-nonprofit for the over-fifty crowd, AARP, quietly dropped the name those iconic letters formerly...
Maggie Wallem Rowe
Jan 9, 2024
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What Will You Do with Your 525,600 Minutes This Year?
It’s 2024! How did you celebrate the arrival of Leap Year? Parties? Pyrotechnic displays? Populating Times Square? Pooped out with Covid,...
Maggie Wallem Rowe
Jan 2, 2024
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From Our House to Yours: Christmas Photos from the Rowes (final post for 2023)
Even in this age of Google maps and GPS-enabled technology in our vehicles, I still look for mile markers. Navigational systems and...
Maggie Wallem Rowe
Dec 19, 2023
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Your Turn: Tell Us About a Favorite Gift, Please!
And an Ann Voskamp Giveaway If this post were a game show, then it's audience participation time. In your years on the planet, what's one...
Maggie Wallem Rowe
Dec 12, 2023
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