wasting water

is it a waste to steam up the shower so I can breathe? What isn’t  a waste? How can I even think of “waste” when I have so much?? — Best regards, Sheila sheilalagrand.com


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The Value-Added Visit

Nadya and me. October, 2010. The Bonus Blessing “St. Petersburg is amazing,” Pastor Robert said. “Could you please pass the rolls?”  I sat at the table, drifting on the buzz of happy conversation. Our friend Nadya, visiting from Moscow, had joined us for church that morning, along with our buddy Mike. After church, everyone returned […]


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The Value-Added Visit

Nadya and me. October, 2010. The Bonus Blessing “St. Petersburg is amazing,” Pastor Robert said. “Could you please pass the rolls?”  I sat at the table, drifting on the buzz of happy conversation. Our friend Nadya, visiting from Moscow, had joined us for church that morning, along with our buddy Mike. After church, everyone returned […]


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comfort for a friend with a dying mother

Oh. I find I don’t have any. I don’t remember one comforting thing anyone said when my mother died. So what was the point of all that pain, all that grief, if i didn’t hang on to something that could help someone else?  — Best regards, Sheila sheilalagrand.com


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Birthday Presence

Sawyer, Big Brother Cadence, Mommy Elaine. Balboa Naval Hospital, San Diego. November 11, 2010 The Next Best Thing to Being There During a Skype session with my daughter Elaine and her family, I asked Cadence, who had just turned five, if he had fun on his birthday. “I did,” he said. “But Lala! Why weren’t […]


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