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That Time You Caught a Dimple -- Blooming Where We're Planted

Annie D. Stutley

9 minutes ago
7 min

That Time You Caught a Dimple -- Blooming Where We're Planted

I could learn from these hydrangeas. We all could.

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That Time You Asked for The Good Chicken -- When accepting help is as awkward as a junior high dance

Annie D. Stutley

Mar 22
7 min

That Time You Asked for The Good Chicken -- When accepting help is as awkward as a junior high dance

I'm the the equivalent to a preteen with braces and acne avoiding a crush at a school dance, when it comes to accepting help.

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That Time You Didn’t Shave Your Legs -- Stage Three Judgement

Annie D. Stutley

Mar 15
7 min

That Time You Didn’t Shave Your Legs -- Stage Three Judgement

03/14/2021 I had known about the cancer for about eight days when I sat in the umpteenth doctor’s office to proceed with what has got to...

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That Time You Had Cancer -- Yep, you read that right.

Annie D. Stutley

Feb 21
7 min

That Time You Had Cancer -- Yep, you read that right.

But even this modern lingo skeptic recognizes that sometimes you don’t have to be an explorer or a pioneer to experience a journey.

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That Time You Missed Sunset -- Why We’re Afraid to Give

Annie D. Stutley

Feb 14
7 min

That Time You Missed Sunset -- Why We’re Afraid to Give

It was the kind of finale that only follows one helluva show. And I’d missed it. For five flipping dollars.

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That Time You Looked For Your Life -- Why I want a Reverend Mother

Annie D. Stutley

Feb 3
6 min

That Time You Looked For Your Life -- Why I want a Reverend Mother

Some of us display the complexity of a patchwork quilt. Others have an astonishingly straight path.

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That Time You Acknowledged Killer -- Where to Find an Edge of Your Own

Annie D. Stutley

Jan 25
6 min

That Time You Acknowledged Killer -- Where to Find an Edge of Your Own

I’ve learned that animosity just has this way of finding us.

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That Time You Told a Sunrise Lie -- How to Get ‘Er Done and Hit the Wall

Annie D. Stutley

Jan 18
6 min

That Time You Told a Sunrise Lie -- How to Get ‘Er Done and Hit the Wall

I didn’t even attempt to make the promise, not to save face, but because I knew it was a lie. But not just any lie. A sunrise lie.

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That Time You Were Extraordinarily Ordinary -- How to Wait Like a Winner

Annie D. Stutley

Jan 9
7 min

That Time You Were Extraordinarily Ordinary -- How to Wait Like a Winner

It’s a fact of life I’m only just now able to understand and, frankly, come to peace with.

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That Time You Were Poked -- My dog got acupuncture, but I was the real patient

Annie D. Stutley

Dec 18, 2020
7 min

That Time You Were Poked -- My dog got acupuncture, but I was the real patient

But Katie’s weekly pokes and prods also came as I was approaching my epiphany...

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That Time You Were Not Exceptional--Three holiday stories and a lesson on limits

Annie D. Stutley

Dec 16, 2020
8 min

That Time You Were Not Exceptional--Three holiday stories and a lesson on limits

Three stories that reveal the one thing you should know about limitations

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That Time You Were a Stump -- Boundaries and "The Giving Tree"

Annie D. Stutley

Dec 5, 2020
7 min

That Time You Were a Stump -- Boundaries and "The Giving Tree"

Is it a story of generosity and unconditional love, or (and I truly hate to ask this) is the giving tree an enabler and a chump?

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That Time You Were a Spectacle -- Why that broken grocery cart is so confident

Annie D. Stutley

Nov 23, 2020
7 min

That Time You Were a Spectacle -- Why that broken grocery cart is so confident

I never intentionally choose the crappy grocery cart. Who does?

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That Time You Earned the Top Score -- When life falls in pieces, where goes your plan?

Annie D. Stutley

Nov 13, 2020
7 min

That Time You Earned the Top Score -- When life falls in pieces, where goes your plan?

I really shouldn’t be surprised that a game about creating order from chaos is what interests me.

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That Time You Controlled Time -- The worst part about getting older

Annie D. Stutley

Oct 23, 2020
7 min

That Time You Controlled Time -- The worst part about getting older

The worst part about getting older isn't getting older. The worst part about getting older is that our parents get older too.

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That Time You Were the Light--What’s left in a broken world?

Annie D. Stutley

Oct 16, 2020
4 min

That Time You Were the Light--What’s left in a broken world?

Does the world have nothing good to offer?

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That Time You Held Your Tongue -- The Fruit of Shutting Up

Annie D. Stutley

Oct 10, 2020
7 min

That Time You Held Your Tongue -- The Fruit of Shutting Up

But is it necessary to always be heard, or is there something to be said (pun intended) for shutting up?

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That Time You Were Prudent -- The New Mythology

Annie D. Stutley

Oct 3, 2020
8 min

That Time You Were Prudent -- The New Mythology

How blessed was I to believe blindly as a child. How blessed am I today to believe with discernment!

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That Time You Cleaned Up -- "It’s not what you LOOK like. It’s what you DO like."

Annie D. Stutley

Sep 25, 2020
7 min

That Time You Cleaned Up -- "It’s not what you LOOK like. It’s what you DO like."

I needed to give the impression that we were an ideal candidate, not just clean, but desirable.

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That Time You Changed Things Up -- The phrase you didn’t know you needed to hear

Annie D. Stutley

Sep 18, 2020
4 min

That Time You Changed Things Up -- The phrase you didn’t know you needed to hear

We’re still not sure what the phrase actually meant at its origin. The words are entirely contradictory.

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