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A Line of Sorts in the Sands of Time
This is a line of sorts in the sands of time because this blog post divides my past from my future. I suppose it can't really be that...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Mar 3, 20172 min read
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I Stare at Playgrounds
I volunteer in my little Aria’s kindergarten classroom. I leave when she goes to recess and on the way out of the building, I stare at...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jan 7, 20152 min read
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“Excuse me. I am Velcroed to your backpack.”
Sometimes life is just so awkward. We had just been in Morro Bay where I bought this awesome dress when a guy in the luggage hold on the...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 19, 20142 min read
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No Good Deed Goes Unpublished
What? Yes, you read that title correctly. No Deed Goes Unpublished. Sometimes I say the most random things. Melinda and I were leaving...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jul 31, 20142 min read
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My Life in a Slingshot
There are times that we can actually see into the future. We can see what is coming our way. We know that we need to prepare—and that is...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jul 22, 20144 min read
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Crawling to the Other Side
I wish that I had gotten better at blogging before last week happened to me. I would have had so much material to blog about if it had...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jun 3, 20142 min read
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What Was I Thinking?
See me there relaxing in that chair? That is the antithesis of my life right now. I can pretty much count on the fact that all planets...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
May 9, 20142 min read
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4Generation House Chaos
Meet Jarachi. He is the youngest member of the 4Generation House and definitely the wildest. Then comes Aria who will turn 5 tomorrow! ...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Apr 28, 20142 min read
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He Lives!
Because He Rose: Everything is Possible Jesus displayed the ultimate power of God by rising from the dead. Death is so final and makes us...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Apr 20, 20141 min read
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Think
The Beginning . . . In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . We all know the story don’t we? Our world began that...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Mar 18, 20143 min read
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Live
Live--Be Happy and Do Good I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Mar 18, 20143 min read
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Love
Love is Everything Do everything in love. I Corinthians 16:14 I taught kindergarten. That explains a lot doesn’t it? Kindergarten...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Mar 18, 20143 min read
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Dream
The Little Engine That Could and Other Success Stories The part of this story that everyone remembers best is the triumphal ending when...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Mar 18, 20143 min read
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Do
I Can Do What? When I began to reflect on “I can,” the first thing that came to my mind was The Little Engine that Could. Maybe it should...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Mar 18, 20144 min read
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Mellow
Feisty Mellow I never really thought about the possibility of being 60. I mean, who gets up in the morning and says, “When I am 60 . . ."...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Mar 18, 20143 min read
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Thrive
To Thrive is to Live! During his Oscar acceptance speech for Best Picture, Steve McQueen stated, “Everyone deserves not just to survive,...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Mar 18, 20142 min read
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Guffaw
Because Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh Waking up in a 4Generation House I have never been a morning person—God understands. For years I...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Mar 10, 20141 min read
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Teach
Those Who Can Everyone who teaches is familiar with the awful quote, “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach” (attributed to George...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Mar 7, 20143 min read
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