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...
LuAnn Cooley, Ph.D.
Author, Educator, Activist
Love always wins. Always.
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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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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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Lu Cooley
- Dec 11, 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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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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Lu Cooley
- Mar 1, 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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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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Lu Cooley
- Jul 30, 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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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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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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Lu Cooley
- Jan 30, 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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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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Lu Cooley
- Sep 21, 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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Lu Cooley
- Jul 27, 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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Lu Cooley
- Jul 22, 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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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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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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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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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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