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LuAnn Cooley, Ph.D.

Author, Educator, Activist
Love always wins. Always.
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    A seasonal snow
    Lu Cooley
    • Jan 7, 2020
    • 3 min

    A seasonal snow

    This morning it is snowing. There is a soft drift of marginally large flakes descending. Oddly, they remind me of ash. That may be the...
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    Trust in a Teacup
    Lu Cooley
    • Nov 28, 2019
    • 3 min

    Trust in a Teacup

    I was talking to a friend the other day about trusting God to answer, knowing how to discern God’s voice and when to take action. She...
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    When Madness is the Only Appropriate Response
    Lu Cooley
    • Jul 19, 2019
    • 6 min

    When Madness is the Only Appropriate Response

    Yet again another assault on human rights, moral sensibilities, the rule of law, the Earth and yet again another friend advises me that I...
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    Buying A Wedding Cake
    Lu Cooley
    • Dec 12, 2017
    • 10 min

    Buying A Wedding Cake

    It shouldn't be an issue that we have a Black president. Gay marriage shouldn't be an issue. And women being funny shouldn't be an issue....
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    Mrs. Perry's Pond
    Lu Cooley
    • Jul 28, 2017
    • 4 min

    Mrs. Perry's Pond

    Mrs. Perry was an Old South aristocratic blue-hair my husband knew through college friends. His story goes that she was the wife of a...
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    Women's History Month
    Lu Cooley
    • Mar 2, 2017
    • 3 min

    Women's History Month

    We look for the achievers, people who have done great things in history when the months to recognize certain groups come around. This is...
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    Forgiveness, the Gift I Give Myself
    Lu Cooley
    • Aug 25, 2016
    • 7 min

    Forgiveness, the Gift I Give Myself

    Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. ~ Suzanne Somers I just love it when someone the media portrays as a ditz says something I think...
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    Finding My Happy Place
    Lu Cooley
    • Jul 31, 2016
    • 3 min

    Finding My Happy Place

    As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world ... as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mahatma...
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    The Three Big Dogs Integrity Cleanse
    Lu Cooley
    • May 30, 2016
    • 7 min

    The Three Big Dogs Integrity Cleanse

    I was going to have a day of feeling loving, but then I read about a thing called an integrity cleanse and decided to go with that...
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    Yet Another Treatise on The Walking Dead
    Lu Cooley
    • Mar 31, 2016
    • 8 min

    Yet Another Treatise on The Walking Dead

    My family has all but given up on me. I’m am unabashedly crazy about The Walking Dead. I started with TWD from day one. I’ve been...
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    A Fierce Hope
    Lu Cooley
    • Jan 31, 2016
    • 7 min

    A Fierce Hope

    Google “fierce hope” and this website comes up: Fierce Hope. Yes, another person dying of cancer. Yes, another person writing about...
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    Thanks and giving
    Lu Cooley
    • Nov 22, 2015
    • 5 min

    Thanks and giving

    Since 1994, I’ve run an annual 13.1 at Thanksgiving. Sometimes in a race. More often on my own. Weather permitting, I stretch, then go...
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    The Guardian of Ideas
    Lu Cooley
    • Sep 22, 2015
    • 2 min

    The Guardian of Ideas

    She stopped inside the door. Her internal compass spun. The room was dark except for light punching through the windows along either...
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    The Pacesetter
    Lu Cooley
    • Jul 28, 2015
    • 2 min

    The Pacesetter

    She was gone for over a week. When I went into the women’s changing room, she was putting her bag in a locker talking to the tall...
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    Crisis Averted
    Lu Cooley
    • Jul 23, 2014
    • 6 min

    Crisis Averted

    I averted a crisis yesterday. Little did I know, but the world was about to come to an end. I’ve been canning. Tomatoes have all but...
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    20 Years Left to Live so I'm Not Doing Another Fundraising Dinner
    Lu Cooley
    • Mar 5, 2014
    • 6 min

    20 Years Left to Live so I'm Not Doing Another Fundraising Dinner

    I was at one of those wonderful fundraiser dinners the other night where high school students serve the food. Near the end of the...
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    The Honest Work of Storytelling
    Lu Cooley
    • Jan 12, 2014
    • 2 min

    The Honest Work of Storytelling

    Let me preface this by saying it is about my needing to upgrade my storytelling skills and not about talking to a brutally honest 10-year...
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    Problem-solving
    Lu Cooley
    • Dec 18, 2013
    • 1 min

    Problem-solving

    It isn't that problems are bigger than we can handle. It's that we have been endowed by our Creator to see beyond to an ideal that...
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    Listening to the Plants Sing
    Lu Cooley
    • May 1, 2013
    • 2 min

    Listening to the Plants Sing

    My granddaughter sulked as she got into the car. “What’s up?” I asked her. “The rain, it’s ruining everything,” she frowned. “Like...
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