Welcome to everyone stopping by from the 2011 Ultimate Blog Party! My name is Joy, and I am a writer who blogs. I’m a little different, and I’m finally ok with it. Since I first learned to put letters together into words, writing has given me freedom to be my most real “me.” For some…

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If you’re like a lot of us, you’ve thought about the chemicals and preservatives in today’s products and wondered two things: should you try to find products with little or none of those ingredients? Can you afford more natural products? One of my blog advertisers,

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I’ve been looking for God for a long time. I’ve written many times about discovering that my faith was built on a flawed foundation and starting over. I’ve written about rebuilding and about being made new, and my daily prayer, “God, I believe. Help my unbelief.” Spiritual growth isn’t steady. It moves in fits and…

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It was a simple two-word question on my Facebook. “Nose-piercing?” It sparked immediate and polarized reaction. People of all ages loved the idea, people of all ages hated it. Some assumed I was thinking about piercing my own nose, others read it as a more general “what do you think about nose-piercing?” question. It was…

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I’m going to take this week off. It’s been a long time since I took a blog-writing vacation, and I need to step back, clear my head, rethink some things. I have a lot going on too, and this is one thing that can sit for a few days. Keep us in your prayers, if…

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I didn’t intend to go this many days without writing. I seem to have contracted some interminable virus, probably picked up while at the hospital with our youngest two weeks ago. I’ve been coughing ever since. Translated, that means I’m barely keeping up with the work around the house, much less writing anything coherent. I actually…

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