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Reach Your New Year’s Resolutions on a Budget

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Thu, 12/30/2021 - 05:00

Whether your New Year’s Resolutions include eating healthier, exercising more, or devoting more time to self-care, having a plan can help you reach your goals on a budget.

10 Doctor-Recommended New Year’s Resolutions to Make Today

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Thu, 12/30/2021 - 05:00

While investing in your health and wellness can sound like an overwhelming goal, doctors say that there are easy, tangible resolutions you can make to feel your best and better protect your health.

What is Your Default?

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Thu, 12/30/2021 - 05:00

Quite often, each morning before getting dressed I check my weather app to get the prediction for the upcoming day. Yesterday I caught myself hoping the sun would be shining and the skies blue. Then it dawned on me. There wasn’t a question whether the sun would be shining.

What a Difference a Day Makes

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Thu, 12/30/2021 - 05:00

A year ago I woke up being someone’s wife and went to bed a widow. My life changed forever that day. And, I guess it’s been changing ever since. I honestly never contemplated being a widow. I don’t think many of us do.

Reflections on 2021, Stepping Forward to ’22

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Thu, 12/30/2021 - 05:00

It’s that time of year. Out with the old, in with the new. It would be an understatement to say that I welcome the new. It would more of an understatement that I still mourn the old. But I’m getting there. It’s been a year of hardship for me as well as a year of healing. Mostly healing.

Forney ISD’s Dr. Terry named ‘NSPRA Superintendent to Watch’

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Thu, 12/23/2021 - 05:00

Forney ISD Superintendent Dr. Justin Terry has been selected as a 2021 Superintendent to Watch by the National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA). Dr. Terry joins just 18 other superintendents nationwide and only three in Texas who were selected for the honor.

Forney ISD AFJROTC Cadet Receives Flight Academy Scholarship

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Thu, 12/23/2021 - 05:00

Cadet Blane Duplissey, a junior in the Forney ISD Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFJROTC) program, is one of 200 Air Force Junior ROTC cadets worldwide to receive a Flight Academy scholarship from Headquarters Air Force Junior ROTC.

Murray Hill Christmas

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Thu, 12/23/2021 - 05:00

“Yes, operator? Oh, hello, yes, can you connect me to Mrs. Annie Davis please? Yes, that’s Murray Hill 5-9975. Thank you, operator. Hello? Oh, Annie! Hello, Annie. How are you, dear? John is good? That’s marvelous, darling. Kids are good? Little Jack and Harriet are well? Oh, good, yes, good.

What Is God Like?

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Thu, 12/23/2021 - 05:00

“God is very loving. I imagine he is very tall. I love him,” says Lauren, 9. Yes, God is very loving, but he’s also a “sin hater” who’s the “nicest man in the world,” says Justin, 10. “I think he has a beard. He is not that old. He lives in heaven. Jesus is his son.

DEADSTICKING-MORE ACTION THAN THE NAME IMPLIES

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Thu, 12/23/2021 - 05:00

The only thing the fishing technique known as ‘deadsticking’ has to do with the word ‘dead’ is the lack of activity by the fisherman before the hookset, especially when dealing with those hard fighting stripers on Lake Texoma, situated on the Texas/Oklahoma border.