Today, we celebrate the second Sunday of the Advent season. As we walked into church this morning, the candle of hope, from the first week of Advent, was already lit. It's wasn't too far into the service when a family…
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When I was a very young man, I heard a story from my Dad about a branch of the Toussaint Family that lived somewhere in Indiana. I didn't learn much about Lowell and Alverta Toussaint as WWII got in the…
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It's Thanksgiving evening. We have just finished our dinner and are taking a rest before the desserts are served. It sure is nice to have the family together. My inbox has been inundated with Black Friday discounts that have already…
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Here we are four days away from Thanksgiving and it seems like it's already over and in the books. My inbox and various print ads are already touting the early Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales and I admit that…
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This weekend, Janet and her two sisters met together to celebrate their relationship with one another. This usually happens several times a year and the autumn outing normally falls on the weekend that would have been their Mother's birthday weekend.…
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Well, if you are here, you have successfully found our first new post and website one way or another. As I told you last Sunday evening, after twelve years on the same platform, we were woefully behind in leveraging new…
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Almost twelve years ago, on my 58th birthday, friends of mine donated their time and talents to create a website for Transitions by The Book. Additionally, they created a logo for us, which we still use today, and someone even…
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Saturday, November 1, 1969 was the day that I took the SAT tests - required at that time in order to apply to most colleges. It was a Saturday and having taken the PSAT (the preliminary practice test) earlier in…
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Monday is Halloween, 2022. This annual day of celebration is actually a pre-cursor to All Saints Day on November 1st. In fact, one of the names used for the events of November 1st is actually Toussaint's Day, derived from the…
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