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Creating Apple

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Caryn

In 1976, while I was married, having kids and raising a family, a man named Steve Jobs was creating Apple, a company that would change my life and the lives of many other people. At that time, most of us … Continue reading →

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Always Willing To Help

Posted on July 2, 2024 by Caryn

If you ask my sister, Allyn’s family about her daughter-in-law, Chelsea Hadlock, the overwhelming consensus will be that Chelsea is absolutely great!! In fact, I don’t think there is a single person in our whole Continue reading →

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Superhero Mom

Posted on August 7, 2023 by Caryn

My nephew Jake Harman is one husband who is madly in love with his wife. He never has anything but wonderful things to say about his wife, Melanie “Mel” Harman. So often, Jakes words concerning his wife are so much better than anything I could write, that I find myself just putting his words down, Continue reading →

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Setting Her Sights

Posted on July 2, 2022 by Caryn

So much has changed in the fourteen years since my niece, Chelsea Hadlock joined our family, on April 12, 2008. She was always the perfect girl for my nephew, Ryan Hadlock, and I cannot imagine him with anyone else…nor can he!! Continue reading →

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Team Fun

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Caryn

When you first meet a Happiness Bringer, you might wonder, how did this person come to be such a joy to be around? For my husband, Dave Chase, I think it started manifesting the day his parents arrived in his world. Continue reading →

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Secret Books

Posted on February 8, 2020 by Caryn

Just imagine living in a place where owning or even borrowing a book could get you, and anyone who gave you a book, killed. During the Holocaust, the Jews and other nationalities and religious groups who didn’t fit Continue reading →

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Future Dreams

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Caryn

I was talking with my sister-in-law, Brenda Schulenberg yesterday, and she mentioned that our niece, Machelle Moore had only had 6 times in her life that Thanksgiving had fallen on her birthday. Continue reading →

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A Notable Similarity

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Caryn

Until recently, it had never occurred to me just how much my grand-niece, Jala Satterwhite is like her great grandmother, Joann Schulenberg. She doesn’t really resemble her Continue reading →

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Girl Stuff

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Caryn

Katie Balcerzak became my grand-niece, when she married my grand-nephew, Keifer Balcerzak. Katie might say of herself that she is a tom-boy type, but I think there is a girlie side to her too. Continue reading →

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Murder In The Skies

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Caryn

Most plane crashes are caused by pilot error or mechanical failure, but sometimes, someone commits an act of terrorism, or as in the case of United Airlines Flight 629 someone commits an act of hatred aimed at one person. These … Continue reading →

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