Author: Andrea Green Burton
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Written on My Heart (or my leg)
A little over a year ago, I did a crazy thing. Well, I wasn’t alone. WE did a crazy thing. The conversation went a little like this. Mom: Your brother has an idea. Me: Oh boy. What? Mom: He wants us all to get coordinating family tattoos. Would you be on board with that? Me:…
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When the Story Becomes Real
Recently I visited a local historic site for the first time. The structure was built in the 1880s, and for the next 70 years, it served as a center of education for African-American students, first from the town, and later, the entire county and regions beyond. It’s a history we’ve all heard, of “separate but…
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A Victorian Valentine
For my 9-5 job, I work for our town’s department of museums on the education team. Most of what we do is to take education programs out to all of the schools in our county, with a different theme each month. For the first half of February, we are doing lessons about Victorian Valentines. Let me…
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Boston, 1990
Our family vacation in the summer of 1990 was a road trip from southeast Michigan, through Ohio and Pennsylvania, to Boston, with a quick stop at the Statue of Liberty. What a whirlwind! I never really thought about it until I had kids of my own, but that was a pretty ambitious road trip, considering…
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Bucket List Vacations
We all think about our dream vacations, places we really want to see while we have time on this earth. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve perused cruise websites, even though we are YEARS from being able to have an adventure like that. Still, here are a few places I’d like to visit…
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Starting in the Middle
First, I would like to say hello and welcome to all of my new followers! I’m so happy to have you here. And in honor of you, this morning I have a few thoughts on friends. One of my favorite literary terms is in media res. Translated from the Latin, this means, “into the middle…
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Magic
One of my dad’s favorite sayings is, “Good luck is the residue of hard work.” Typically I would think of this in terms of sports. In fact, he mentioned it a lot in regards to my high school tennis career, as well as my brother’s baseball playing. And I could see what he meant. The…
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My Biggest Goal
I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a few discussions lately about whether or not this year (2020…can you believe it?) is the beginning of a new decade. And while it is technically not a new decade (because we didn’t start with year zero), I get that a new number in front really makes…
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Cherish the Moments
I am the mother of four children under the age of ten, and if I had a dollar for every time someone told me to cherish these moments because the time goes by quickly, I could fund the research to build a time machine so I could actually hold onto these days forever. This is…
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Double Rainbow
Every year on December 10, I take a nostalgic look at this photo, and I share it on social media (which for me, is just Facebook). I can’t believe it’s been seven years since our second daughter was born, and seven years since our doula captured this moment. It is one of the most important…
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