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Simple life lessons

Marjorie Turner Hollman is an author, creator, and observer who loves the outdoors. Link to all Marjorie’s books.

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My girl with one of her many sweet cousins

This happened many years ago, but it still makes me smile.

My daughter came home from her last track meet of the year. As we ate dinner together she told me about the track meet, and then…

“Oh, that speech in English class today? Guess what? Somebody else also brought in chocolate chip cookies to demonstrate.”

“Oh?” I prompted, attempting to conceal my anxiety that this was going to turn into a catastrophe. (I have a habit of imagining disaster at every turn, but have never been very good at predicting catastrophes that have actually occurred.) There have been some doozies, just not ones I ever imagined.

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