Shelly’s Journal

I hope you all made it over here before my former hosting service cut me off. I had 2 days left on my paid time, and I expected that was when it would go kaput. I didn’t even have a chance to catch my blogroll.
I am currently transitioning my url to this site, [...]

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I try to stay away from the news, which is why I read hard news online, reserving my newspaper subscription for the 2x a week local “gossip” rag. (Hey, a girl has to find out where all the yard sales are.) Too many things anger me about the national media sources available - [...]

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I think that somehow I forgot to mention this in the midst of all the other things that have been going on. I got the first peek at our little one last week. I had set it up so Gil could come along, but then his work hours got changed, and so it [...]

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I’m not much of a cereal person these days. I go in phases. I’m only eating it because I’m hungry and I need something quick. It’s funny to me how our tastes in cereals not only change, but is ultimately effected by what we ate when we were growing up - or [...]

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I’m starting this blog long before I let the rest of you in on it. I want it to be full of fun stuff before I start having people look around. I always think it’s more fun to have “archives” when people first discover you so they wonder what they missed. I [...]

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We come around the corner again to the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. A sad day for women in this country. A sad day for us all. The decision to legalize abortion in this country is like the serpent giving Eve the apple all over again.
While the sexual revolution and [...]

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I had forgotten.

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Lakeshore path sunset Originally uploaded by dcmarch.
Tomorrow, I will find my feet on the soil of my native state for the first time in three years.
I left Wisconsin on February 1, 1996. The temperature hovered near 30 below zero as I packed up my Chevy Corsica and headed East, away from the [...]

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Movies, books and television tackle the theme of the battle between good and evil. We like to believe that in reality this type of thing takes place only in imaginations. But is it all around us? Are there bigger battles being waged in the heavenlies? Christians in this area claim that Williamsburg has spiritual significance [...]

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I remember the excitement of the “Bigfoot” phenomena when I was young. I thought that had long died out. But apparently Bigfoot lives in Virginia! Who knew??? There is a story in the Virginia Pilot on one Virginian’s pursuit of this legend.

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