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Amaryllis on My Mind

by Marna Ashburn • December 11, 2023

Last year, the boxes of amaryllis bulbs weren’t stacked in the hardware store aisles like before.  “We didn’t get any from the warehouse,” said the clerk. Supply chains were slowly re-starting after the pandemic. I found one bulb at Michael’s…

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Praise for the Princess of Pointy Pumps

by Marna Ashburn • October 16, 2023

After King Charles ascended the throne, his daughter-in-law, the Duchess of Stilettos, became known as Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Pointy Pumps. All hail, the High Priestess of High Heels. Of course, I’m talking about Catherine, the Princess of…

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Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing Releases New Editions of Household Baggage Books

by Marna Ashburn • July 7, 2019

I’m excited to announce that my two books, HOUSEHOLD BAGGAGE: The Moving Life of a Military Wife and HOUSEHOLD BAGGAGE HANDLERS: 64 Stories From the Hearts and Lives of Military Wives were re-released by Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing on July 4, 2019.…

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Giving Praise for All the Ways Life Supports Me

by Marna Ashburn • December 14, 2018

During one of the first yoga classes I took in 1996, I puzzled over the instructor’s guidance to “Do these postures with a feeling of gratitude in your heart.” How did I conjure a feeling of gratitude out of thin…

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My Daughter Has Eight Mothers

by Marna Ashburn • May 14, 2018

My daughter has eight mothers. That’s a lot to remember on Mother’s Day. No, we don’t have a Big Love/Sister Wives situation. They are the mothers in the host families who sponsored her when she was an exchange student and…

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Please Confirm This Confirmation

by Marna Ashburn • April 17, 2018

My dentist is stalking me, or rather her office is. They have texted, emailed, and left me two voicemails reminding me of my cleaning and asking me to confirm their confirmation. This after the receptionist watched me enter it into…

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Make a Run for the Vermilion Border

by Marna Ashburn • March 28, 2018

Do you dare cross the Vermilion Border?   It sounds like a setting from Game of Thrones. A legendary place where epic battles were fought and kingdoms won and lost. A setting long ago and far away. Nay, the Vermilion Border…

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So Many Coats

by Marna Ashburn • March 25, 2018

“Why,” my mom asked, peering into my hall closet, “do you have so many coats?” A few years earlier, my son studied the coats hanging on hooks in our mudroom and said the same thing: “They’re all yours.” They were…

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Zen and the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

by Marna Ashburn • February 4, 2018

Over the holidays while I languished on the couch after knee surgery, I had the decadent experience of watching lots of television. One evening, I stopped channel surfing at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, an annual extravaganza of impossibly skinny…

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Corral Those Shopping Carts

by Marna Ashburn • February 4, 2018

An item bouncing around the internet declares there are two kinds of people in the world: those who return shopping carts and those who don’t. Some would say this is an oversimplification, but I think it’s a useful distinction. The…

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  • Amaryllis on My Mind
  • Praise for the Princess of Pointy Pumps
  • Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing Releases New Editions of Household Baggage Books
  • Giving Praise for All the Ways Life Supports Me
  • My Daughter Has Eight Mothers

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