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I am the world`s worst blogger...

I haven`t posted in ages. I suck at blogging and I know this, but when I get in a good blogging routine I really enjoy it.

What prompted me to even venture over to my neglected blog today was reading the blog of a college friend / sorority sister. She recently found out that she has breast cancer and is blogging about her experience. I totally admire her for being able to put those kinds of thoughts and feelings into words at all, much less being able to sit and type them out. Anyway, when I commented on her post there was a place to enter my website, so I clicked the button on my toolbar and visited my site simply to copy and paste my info into the comment. Then I thought, if I`m going to post my website when I comment, perhaps I should try posting something of my own now and then.

For today`s post I will keep it simple. I don`t want to jump in the deep end on my first day back to the blog. I will simply leave with this request. If you`re a praying person or someone who believes in sending positive thoughts, please send some thoughts or prayers up for my sweet sister from college. I don`t want to post her real name, but she loves The King, so we`ll just call her Elvis here. Personally, I am praying for her peace and strength throughout this ordeal and for speedy healing. I believe that prayer and positive thinking can have a huge impact and that coupled with her own strength will be enough to fight the nasty disease that has invaded her body.

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