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Safe on the water

“Be careful to avoid the dead trees in the river because they can suck you in and overturn your canoe,” warned our whitewater canoeing instructor.
After spending a joyful Christmas with my daughter, I caught a flight home and deplaned with plans to retrieve my car from the airport parking lot.
Early one morning on a bright, sunny day, my husband and I drove to his new office building about 3 hours from our home.
I grew up hating insurance.
“Perfect love casteth out fear,” the Bible says.
It was Monday, November 12, 2001, in North America.
About four years ago, I decided our brand-new house needed a brand-new dining-room set: table, chairs, and a beautiful buffet cabinet.

Seeing what God sees

It was a fantastic job really, working as an assistant in a puppet workshop, surrounded by happy children and getting to play games with them.
During the pet food recall in the United States, one of my beloved toy poodles became very ill after eating tainted food.
It’s hard to imagine life without the Internet.
How many Guernicas<em class="footnote d-none" title="*">&lt;em class="footnote d-none" title="*"&gt;The April 26, 1937, bombing of the Spanish city Guernica by German aircraft during the Spanish Civil War—depicted in a celebrated painting by Pablo Picasso—caused widespread destruction and resulted in well over a thousand civilian deaths.
It’s easy to grow up thinking you are a complete klutz.