I once read a book about the five Chinese elements—fire, earth, water, wood, metal—and how they map onto human personalities. As a disclaimer, I don’t go in for the signs of the zodiac or predicting personality by birth year, etc. This book wasn’t that, but instead took the angle of using the elements to categorize
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Renata is not the real name of the woman in this story. To protect her family’s privacy, she asked for a pseudonym. I gave her the name Renata, which means “reborn.” I am telling you her story very much as she told it to me. *** When my mom was in labor with me, my
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A guest post by Kim Sorrelle. *** It is amazing how many names can be acquired in a lifetime. Names that come and go and names that last forever. At birth, I was given the name Kimberly Sue Langlois, Kimmie for short. My aunts, uncles, and cousins still call me Kimmie. Starting in kindergarten, I
I met Sofia at a recent writer’s conference, and from a few comments she made (after I’d told her I was engaged to Ivan), discerned that she would have valuable insight on how to work through marriage struggles to build a healthy relationship. “Write a blog post,” I urged her. “Tell my readers your marriage
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“I don’t want to call God an idiot or anything,” I told Ivan, “but if I had created the world, I would have done things differently.” Someone I love made a choice that hurt me, and that is why I said it. “I guess he could have made us all puppets,” Ivan said. Puppets, yes…but
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