Inside This Issue
May is when people graduate, begin summers, marry, – and start new lives, unless you are serving in Iraq or trying to focus on finishing at Virginia Tech. This issue we look at learning in life,...
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Listening helps us learn
Almost everyone who has graduated as a motivated student credits at least one excellent teacher. Differing studies on excellence in teachers often stress Jon’s point here. “To listen is th...
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Notes from the Editor
Sliding - Deciding, Or life without Graduations
Sociologists speak of an increasing trend. Instead of choosing a mate and deciding to wait and marry; some couples slide into bed, slide into living tog...
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To everything a season
Here on planet Earth, we officially mark the seasons’ beginnings and endings by equinoxes and solstices. For half of the year (from around March 20 to September 22), the northern hemisphere tips...
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Celebrate Recovery
Celebrate Recovery is for any one 18 and over, who wishes to recover from struggles with anger, pride, over-eating, low self esteem, depression, pornography, sex, fear, past scars, and substance abuse...
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My wandering focus
Graduating. Accomplishing. Marking off new gains, all take something simple that Diane points out here.
I drive a very old car an 11-year-old minivan: The Race Van, as Justin calls it. It has many &ld...
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Money Management Tips
If you’re thinking of ways to fund your child’s education, the federal government has an incentive— the Coverdell Education Savings Account (Coverdell ESA), formerly called an Educat...
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Bittersweet Sixteen
The May day our older daughter turned 16, I saw her briefly at breakfast, then missed her when she hurried out to school. After school, her daddy took her for that All-important Mission – her dr...
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Paruro update
Roberto and I are hoping to find someone who will really want to dedicate himself to learning the stories and to the work so that when I leave in a month or so Roberto won’t be all alone again. ...
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ABCs for a new direction
It is our prayer that something, anything in this publication has moved you to search for The Light in your own life and it is our purpose to connect you with someone or The One that can punch holes i...
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Believe
We hope you enjoy what you read in Connections. Our mission is to provide you with a family publication which delivers articles that are thought-provoking, encouraging, uplifting, inspiring, and somet...
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