I grew up in a small Christian community. I was baptized and confirmed at the United Church of Christ (UCC) but switched to be a Missouri synod Lutheran when I was young and married with children. I am still Lutheran today. But my aunt is Catholic. She, too, grew up in the UCC church, but converted […]
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Every year at tax time, I become the favorite family member as I prepare taxes for my siblings and children. It’s a barter system where I scratch their back, and they scratch mine, although I believe my back is still quite itchy! But I don’t mind as I’m able to use “free file” to do
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I’ve won all kinds of cool items from various contests including iPads, gift cards, Apple watches and even a full truckload of Target liquidation items. Some call me lucky, but I think it’s a combination of the law of attraction, and that fact that I probably enter more giveaways than the average person. If you’ve
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I started crying when motivational speaker Eric Thomas, aka The Hip Hop Preacher, was giving his keynote presentation at Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas back in 2012. I could relate to him on so many levels. I know, you’re thinking what does a sheltered white girl from Nebraska have in common with a black preacher
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When I was younger, I remember my Grandma Betty saying the phrase “more than Carter’s got pills” which she used to reference to “a huge amount” of something. All these years, I presumed she was talking about Jimmy Carter, our 39th President. After all, he was the President from 1977 to 1981, and these were
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When my uncle John had a heart attack a couple of years ago, his daughter Shauna (my cousin) thought she should get her heart checked to see if she was at risk of heart disease as well. So she made an appointment for a Life Line Screening. Life Line Screening is a preventive health screening
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My great-aunt Peg Albin (front and center of photo above) was always peddling something. I remember growing up, and she was always pulling our her free catalogs and taking orders from customers. It was her funeral in 2021 that I saw her on the cover of a 1978 magazine called “Vanda Star” that led me
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As a reseller, you’re likely familiar with the constant task of shipping out numerous packages. As an Amazon FBA seller myself, I often find myself shipping large boxes to UPS. Some of these boxes are so large they don’t fit in my car, making the trips to and from the UPS store not only time-consuming
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I have now been down for the count for about two months. After writing the article about how health affects wealth, I decided to start a timeline of my pinched nerve debacle as maybe it may help someone else in this same predicament. Kim’s Pinched Nerve Timeline My left arm started feeling restless at the
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For the past two weeks, I have been laid up literally and figuratively with a pinched nerve. The pain has seriously been worse than childbirth. I am currently waiting for Blue Cross Blue Shield to pre-authorize an MRI so the doctors can see the root of the pain to fix it. Needless to say, whiling
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