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The Inches That Saved His Life

November 12, 2015 By Lauren

The Inches That Saved His Life

I wrote this last year and never hit the publish button, but after rereading, it was a good reminder to me to not take anything for granted. I hope it does the same for you! Inches. That’s how close we came. A distance we can physically measure that would have changed everything forever. It was the […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Marriage Tagged With: close calls, death, snow

What’s Really Important

March 1, 2015 By Lauren

What's Really Important

What’s Really Important I’m staring at my phone when he opens the driver’s door. He climbs in, drops two paper bags onto my lap, and backs out of our parking spot. I take a moment to place them at my feet, then return to my reading. As we pull out of the parking lot, he remarks, […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: death, family, important, life, Oren Miller, remember, reminder

Week 29: Life is beautiful

August 10, 2014 By Lauren

Oldest and Youngest

If this is your first time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, please click here to find out what it’s all about. The brevity of life hit me this week. On Tuesday evening we drove down to Bar Harbor. Not an hour after we passed a certain stretch of road, three people lost […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: brevity, death, do what matters, keeping it real, life, meaning

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