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Fear, Faith, and My Kitchen Backsplash

Fear, Faith, and My Kitchen Backsplash

by MarianBeaman | Nov 14, 2018 | blog, meditation, Mennonite Lore, Quotations, Reflection, Uncategorized

Spiders, snakes, heights, tiny space . . . what feels scary to you? Other things that scare us: mud-slinging politicians, school shootings, low cash flow, a health blow Studies show that 95% of what we fear is baseless, and the rest are things we must learn to live...
Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

by MarianBeaman | Nov 7, 2018 | blog, Coming of Age, Uncategorized

    Who? What? When? Where? Your thoughts welcome . . . 
The Velveteen Daughter and My Memoir Title Reveal

The Velveteen Daughter and My Memoir Title Reveal

by MarianBeaman | Oct 31, 2018 | blog, book review, Coming of Age, Mennonite Lore, Quotations, Uncategorized

A Real Book “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?” “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?” It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It...
51 Years of Eat, Pray, Love

51 Years of Eat, Pray, Love

by MarianBeaman | Oct 24, 2018 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Family / Nostalgia, Travel, Uncategorized

“Another anniversary. After the 50th, what’s so special about that?” Quite a lot, it turns out. Cliff and I observed another anniversary on August 5. We had just returned from a trip to Asheville this summer (where we spent our honeymoon 51 years earlier), but I...
Who Put the Butter in Butterfly?

Who Put the Butter in Butterfly?

by MarianBeaman | Oct 17, 2018 | blog, Literature, Quotations, Tips, Uncategorized

Inquiring Minds want to Know . . . Who Put the Butter in Butterfly? a book that survived my Great Book Purge of 2016, was a birthday gift from the Dean of Liberal Arts at my college in 1993. It is billed as“compulsive reading for anyone incurably curious about the...
Fall Foliage and Blog Break

Fall Foliage and Blog Break

by MarianBeaman | Oct 10, 2018 | blog, Uncategorized

  This week I’m taking a blog break to enjoy fall foliage . . . I will return next week, October 17. Be well!
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