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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jul 7, 2020
- 5 min
Mourning the Loss of Yourself
I’m having a hard time writing lately. Nothing seems to come out as articulately as I prefer. It seems a little dull – not as moving or p...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jul 6, 2020
- 4 min
Content
“I’m happy with our house. It’s small, but we have a new roof and a new A/C unit. Our yard is generous and our mortgage is low. Low enoug...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jun 29, 2020
- 5 min
Another How To - Hearing God
"You know -- you know without a doubt in your mind that you have heard God’s voice.” We are a civilization that survives off of how-to gu...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jun 24, 2020
- 3 min
Be You
Slowing to a stop for the red light, I noticed the bumper sticker on the car in front of me. “Behaved girls rarely make history.” I about...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jun 23, 2020
- 3 min
You Win
The other day my husband needed my phone. I sat down in the playroom with my two boys and my busy-body self could only sit still for so l...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jun 22, 2020
- 4 min
Hiding
There was a bit of commotion coming from the corner of the cafeteria. I had my coffee in one hand and an opened package of cookies on the...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jun 16, 2020
- 2 min
Upside Down
We’ve been swinging a lot lately. Almost every day since the lockdowns started, my sons and I swing on our playground. The little one is ...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jun 15, 2020
- 3 min
What's Normal
“Do you ever wonder what it would be like if your sister was normal?” “Which one?” I laughed so hard when my brother told me about this c...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jun 12, 2020
- 5 min
Monitoring Problem
If you are monitoring the situation in our world, it kind of looks like God is on break right now? More like on sabbatical. Many of you m...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jun 9, 2020
- 3 min
Two Seconds
As a small child, barely old enough to recall, one of my brothers decided to teach me how to swim. Eager anticipation swelled up inside o...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jun 9, 2020
- 4 min
The Nobody
They sit on the top shelf in the closet, twenty-five year old boots. They are brown leather and are in amazing shape considering their ag...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jun 3, 2020
- 3 min
The Unbeliever turned Believer
She had just won the best labor warrior story – twins both weighing eight pounds each, thirty-nine weeks along, a full 24 hours of labor w...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jun 3, 2020
- 3 min
Banana Bread
Banana Bread You can make lemonade out of lemons and you can make banana bread out of over ripe bananas. I hate to waste food, especially...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jun 2, 2020
- 3 min
Cookie Dough and a Joint
We were psychosis buddies and around the same age, but that’s about all we shared in common. We were rivals as he wore his Alabama shirt ...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jun 1, 2020
- 1 min
The Cross is Disappearing
One Morning, I picked up my son and his little legs wrapped around my waist. He grabbed ahold of my gold cross around my neck. He stared ...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- Jun 1, 2020
- 5 min
Sunday Morning
It was Sunday. It was also Veteran’s Day. I had no desire to attend church, but my son encouraged me to get dressed and head out the door...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- May 31, 2020
- 4 min
Red Velvet Cake
Cake. Cake, it’s a good thing in this world. It’s a hallmark of celebratory times. It comes in many flavors, colors, and sizes. There are...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- May 29, 2020
- 9 min
Distracted
I am white. And I was forcibly knocked to the ground by three grown white men. They were cops. I am a woman. And I still remember when th...
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Darcie @ Leighton Lane
- May 21, 2020
- 4 min
Memorial Day
Memorial Day should never be spent alone. At least not if you are a Veteran. That was my thought as I headed out the door to meet a frien...
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