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  • Scratching the Owl’s Head
    Posted on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, climbing mountains, friendship, hiking, irony, natural world, Nature, NY, Owls Head, poetry, the hamlet of Owls Head NY, transience of life, writing, Writing Redemption

    by: Carol McClain @CAROL_MCCLAIN   My friend Linda Sprague found a few old poems of mine published in Foothills Ink and sent them to me. I’m going to take a break from my usual musings and share some never before shared work. I dedicate this post to Linda Sauther, Ellen Mainville, Flossy Powell, and Zoe Steenberge. …[ read more ]

  • Yesterday’s Poison
    Posted on Monday, January 7th, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, forgiveness, friendship, redemption, Yesterday's Poison

    By Carol McClain @carol_mcclain Did you realize if you drank yesterday’s poison, you would still die? Lately, my blogs have dealt with the power of forgiveness. Forgiving never condones. It sets you free. Furthermore, friendships are critical to our lives. Without the power of honest friends, we may never be able to forgive. Today, I’m taking a …[ read more ]

  • God Is Your Friend: 5 Qualities of Good Friends
    Posted on Monday, June 20th, 2016 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 5 qualities of a good friend, Carol McClain, character counts, friends, friendship, God is our friend, perfectionism

    13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. John 15:13-14 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain I’ve recently moved to a new state–one foreign in all ways to New York where I’ve lived my entire life. One of the first things on our …[ read more ]

  • My Dream Team: Day 1/11
    Posted on Monday, January 10th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized | Tagged: friendship, Linda R

    A winning team does not consist of one member–but many–each sharing her or his gift to make the group succeed. This ideally analogizes people in my life: friends have made me be better than I ever could on my own. So who would be on my dream team? Excluding family–over the next eleven days I’ll …[ read more ]

  • Happy Birthday, Debbie Greenwald
    Posted on Sunday, December 20th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized | Tagged: birthday, celebration, friendship

    So often the things of real value are under appreciated. I think the world needs to note the heavenly angel that is my friend Debbie. She never forgets things of importance. For example, this year I had to put down my sweet Cavalier King Charles spaniel. For Christmas, she found an ornament for my gift. …[ read more ]

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      “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.” ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life It's the new year, and of course, you've made resolutions. Do you want to exercise more? Cook healthy meals? Write a book? Have you resolved that this is the year you'd accomplish this? Nearly all of us have already broken our resolves. Why? Because we do what we want to do. Wait, our resolves are our desire, or so we think. Not if you're not doing… ...[ full story ]

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