God of the Sugar Snaps
My God of Everything speaks to me through sugar snap peas. Well, He speaks to me through many different avenues, if I listen. But today...
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Carroll Devine
- Jul 13, 2019
- 4 min
A Hurricane in the Eye
A Louisiana girl through and through, I’m sitting outside under shelter from the rain in guarded anticipation of the wrath of tropical...
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Carroll Devine
- Sep 21, 2018
- 1 min
Purple Showers
Every morning, for months at a time, dozens of beautiful lavender flowers appear along tall green stems clustered around our mailbox....
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Carroll Devine
- Feb 18, 2018
- 1 min
A Breath of Fresh Air
All too often, when we just need to “get away from it all,” we travel somewhere, yet take it all with us. But nature offers some of the...
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Carroll Devine
- Jan 8, 2018
- 2 min
Why NOT to Make New Year's Resolutions
Here it is long enough after the first of January for me to have broken any New Year’s resolutions I may have made, and I’m ahead of the...
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Carroll Devine
- Nov 21, 2017
- 2 min
Give Thanks for Bedbugs
It’s easy to be thankful for the obvious blessings in life – family, friends, food, shelter, health, opportunity, prosperity, and good...
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Carroll Devine
- Nov 13, 2017
- 1 min
What If...
In conversation with ourselves, what if we contemplated these ten questions: What if … …all I get to keep in my life is only what I truly...
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Carroll Devine
- Aug 19, 2017
- 1 min
A Friend in Need
Not long ago, in a discussion with a small group of women, one of them lamented that even though she had been living in our town for...
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Carroll Devine
- Feb 24, 2017
- 3 min
Sandcastles
When was the last time you finger painted, played marbles, blew bubbles, flew a kite, skipped, wore a silly costume, played a kazoo, put...
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Carroll Devine
- Nov 28, 2016
- 2 min
Leftover Thanks
After all the hours of preparation for Thanksgiving, the feasts shared with family and friends, and the words of gratitude for bountiful...
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Carroll Devine
- Oct 19, 2016
- 2 min
LET'S CLONE THE GOOD
Some people should be cloned – for their spirit, determination, and attitude, and for reminding us about honor and what really matters in...
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Carroll Devine
- Sep 6, 2016
- 2 min
To the Rescue
To The Rescue Sept. 6 16 In the wide wake of recent flooding in various areas of Louisiana, many of us who live here find it hard to...
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Carroll Devine
- Jul 11, 2016
- 2 min
Horse race
It’s time to take back our world from despots and thugs. In this insane horse race that the world has become, Anger is taking the lead...
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Carroll Devine
- Apr 22, 2016
- 2 min
Earth Day and Poetry Month
“I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree…” (Sergeant Joyce Kilmer), and yet… It seems fitting that Earth Day and Poetry...
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Carroll Devine
- Mar 30, 2016
- 2 min
Seriously?!
What a country! We actually have a day to celebrate, or make fun of, our own foolishness. April Fool’s Day gives us a break from taking...
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Carroll Devine
- Mar 9, 2016
- 2 min
The Best Things
The Best Things in Life are definitely NOT FREE. Not the Best Things, or anything else. What am I, some awful cynic, a Scrooge who has a...
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Carroll Devine
- Feb 27, 2016
- 2 min
Some Call It Luck
My friend Walt who has achieved tremendous financial and career success, tells me it’s aggravating when people say he “just got lucky.”...
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Carroll Devine
- Feb 12, 2016
- 2 min
The Joy of Ages
When we were in our teens and twenties, the word was, “Don’t trust anyone over thirty.” We were sure we knew an awful lot about life then...
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Carroll Devine
- Jan 22, 2016
- 2 min
Amaryllis By Morning
It came in a box for Christmas – the living bulb of a potted amaryllis – its eager sprout barely emerging from the dirt. I placed it near...
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Carroll Devine
- Dec 15, 2015
- 2 min
Who's Driving Your Car?
Are you just along for the ride, or are YOU driving your car – your Life? When I was young, naïve, foolhardy, and hitchhiking in...
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