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Wednesday's Woman

  • Got to be Real: Remind yourself daily to be amazing

    In your most country accent, peer into your looking glass and say out loud, “I am amazing.”

    There is no doubt in my mind I am an amazing woman, and you know why? Because I said so.

    We all have special gifts, talents and qualities that make us amazing. I think about some of the women who have graced my life with their “sweet aroma of wisdom, strength and compassion” in the words of my good friend and sister, Monica Bland, and they all were amazing.

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  • Life or Something Like It: Calendar daze

    My husband says he minds the clock while I maintain the calendar.

    True enough. I have trouble getting where I’m going on time. I’m the one who slips in a few minutes late to meetings, classes and even sometimes church services. He’s patiently tried to fix this flaw, suggesting helpfully I might want to add 30 minutes to the time I think I’ll be finished with a task so as to have enough time to get to the next. It might make sense in his mind, but not mine. If I know I have 30 minutes …

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  • Speakers with Spark: Grateful for President Roosevelt

    This month we will celebrate Presidents’ Day. This past summer I started to think about how someone in the office of president can affect generations to come as I was visiting a national park. Our country truly is America, the beautiful.

    There are so many national parks to visit that are awesome and fun for the entire family. What if someone did not see the need or have the vision 100 years ago to preserve these beautiful areas of our country? They could have fallen into private hands and the public would not have privilege to see these gorgeous sites.

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  • Motherhood and More: For those suffering a loss

    Recently, a girl from Meade County died in a car wreck. She was 27, a young mother of a little boy.

    I recently got to know her, though I don’t claim to know her well. Not like her many, many friends. Not like my new sister-in-law. You see, this girl, Sarah Hottell, and I were both bridesmaids in my husband’s brother’s wedding in December.

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  • Life or Something Like It: Hang around, holidays

    My husband’s sister usually takes her Christmas tree down Dec. 26.

    When Christmas is over, it’s over, she says. Besides, the tree takes up space in her living room.

    Others I know devote New Year’s Day to packing up the decorations, a family project.

    Still others leave them up until Jan. 6, Three Kings Day, the 12th of the 12 days of Christmas.

    Me, I’m a Christmas extender.

    I’m not in a hurry to pack away the nutcrackers, the lights and the nativity scene.

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  • Got to be Real: Holding tight to who you are

    By Shonna Sheckles

    Have you ever thought about what others might think of you? Do they think you might be too fat, too thin, too fair, too dark? In the large scheme of things, does what others think about you really matter?

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  • Akers uses position at library to form lasting connections

    Rebekah Akers, 36, bound her love of books and her passion for community into her position as Adult and Public Services Librarian at the Hardin County Public Library.

    She always has loved libraries and some of her earliest memories include spending time in the college library near her childhood home in Berea.

    “I can still remember how it smells,” she said.

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  • Dunaway is always prepared

    As winter gets into full swing, the threat of icy driving conditions might cross the minds of many, but none likely think about it as much as Patty Dunaway.

    Dunaway, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet chief engineer for District 4, has the job of doing everything she can to make sure state roadways in Hardin County are safe this winter and all year round. District 4 consists of 11 counties, including Hardin.

    “We have 2,900 miles of state roads to take care of,” Dunaway said of her office.

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  • Speakers with Spark: A new year is time for new beginnings

    The New Year brings with it a fresh new start. There’s something about a new year that spurs us to want a new beginning. Just ask the diet and exercise equipment companies; their busiest time of the year is January. One of my clients specializing in exercise equipment, videos and apparel would joke that Christmas season was not very busy, their black Friday was Jan. 1.

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  • Christmas has passed, but what’s next for a grieving family?

    A lot of people in late October tell Dobbins they wish they could go to sleep and wake up in January.

    Waking up to find it’s the day after Christmas, some breathe a sigh of relief that the day has passed, she said.

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