New Day!
Since it is January 10th, I have decided to briefly come out of my cocoon and get some work done. Bear with me as I get this blog reoriented into regular time.
Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.
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