Author: Kerri Tracht
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Is This an Injury, Or Am I Just Old?
Once you have celebrated a certain number of birthdays, there is a phrase that you begin to hear more and more often. It is not comforting nor uplifting.…
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A Beautiful Body
I am not a fan of pictures of myself. There is a division between females who love to have their pictures taken, and those who hide when there is a group picture. I mean some actually leave the vicinity when the cameras or phones come out. Then when it is unavoidable, they will hide…
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Fighting the Natural
I have had a love-hate relationship with my hair most of my life. Okay, to be honest, mostly hate, but I think that is not unusual for us women. If we have straight hair, we want curly, if we have curly hair we wish it were straight. Blondes want to be redheads, brunettes go…
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Do You Know Who I Am?
Occasionally I do something kind of dumb. I know, shocking, isn’t it? Now what I am referring to here is I got caught in a rabbit hole of sorts while scrolling through a news site. I generally can ignore click-bait. But this time, for some bizarre reason, a little story caught my eye, and…
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Why is Everybody Turning 40?
I remember my 40th birthday vividly. The reason is that it was the year my first son graduated from high school. I was a homeschool mom, and so it was a very strange time. There was a graduating class of …one. We were taking him on various trips throughout the…
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Revisions
For those of you who have been keeping up, I am in the process of pursuing getting my first novel published. Yes, I know that there is a direct route through self-publishing, and I could have had it out there already. For reasons that I will not go into here and now, I chose a…
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Keeping Up With Time
We just came off of time change weekend, and all over the country people are still adjusting. Pets are off kilter, babies are off schedule and people who forgot to set their clocks ahead on Saturday night and aren’t church going people, may or may not have been late to work on Monday. Yes, we…
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What Obstacles?
Several years ago, I made the medal and ribbon display you see in the picture here for my husband, John. My daughter and I had run a couple of obstacle races, and he decided to join us. Now, I need to set the stage here for you. Amber and I were working out on…
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The Importance of the Why
It was a week ago my very first experience with a writer’s conference was wrapping up. It was an amazing experience and was more than I could have hoped for. I went with two prayers on my heart. First of all, that God would validate for me that this was what I was supposed…
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A Tangled Mess
We bought several of our granddaughters waterfall lights for Christmas. They are quite stunning when they are hung on the wall. Strings of fairy lights covering a span of about nine feet, hanging in multiple strings from the ceiling to the floor.…