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My Vision Board 2025
March is right around the corner, and I still haven't made my vision board for the year. I even found lots of magazines to make a cut...

Amyanne rigby
Feb 171 min read
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What's on your Bucket List?
I am the worst at New's Year's Resolutions. It's not that I don't have them. I just don't write them down. So here it is three days...

Amyanne rigby
Jan 282 min read
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Meandering with Madsen
It snowed in our home town today. Thankfully, I am off meandering with madsen celebrating the completion of his Bachelor’s degree and his...

Amyanne rigby
Oct 18, 20241 min read
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For my Emma who loves Jane
Our Emma is serving a mission for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the California Arcadia Mission. She is learning...

Amyanne rigby
Jul 24, 20243 min read
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D-Day
Today marks 80 years since D Day the number of surviving veterans dwindles daily. I remember visiting the beaches of Normandy and the...

Amyanne rigby
Jun 6, 20242 min read
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A Borrowed Tomb and the man who buried Jesus.
For Cali as she waits for Jesus I have been looking for Jesus, Before the Cross. I pondered His triumphal entry into Jerusalem On a...

Amyanne rigby
Apr 4, 20246 min read
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Language...
I traveled thousands of miles to a land I never imagined to meet her. Her dark brown eyes stared at me from a timid face. She was Leydi...

Amyanne rigby
Mar 14, 20242 min read
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Jacob Hofhine, Hofheintz or Hofheins
No matter how you spell his name, his story remains the same. It is a story of faith, endurance, and obedience. A brief History of Jacob...

Amyanne rigby
Mar 14, 20243 min read
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Heirlooms... Zina's Tulips
I would not consider myself a gardener, but ever spring I wait in anticipation for Zina's tulips to bloom. They never disappoint me. ...

Amyanne rigby
Mar 14, 20242 min read
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For Emily and For Doug
Last week, I received news that a dear friend, teacher, and mentor passed from this life. DGB was my Composition Teacher and AP teacher...

Amyanne rigby
Mar 10, 20243 min read
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"And Should I die Before My Journey is Through"
The welsh words "Evan" and Eofn mean fearless and bold. There is a small monument on the edge of the Mississippi River that honors those...

Amyanne rigby
Feb 18, 20243 min read
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Max Dickson Weaver- an Unconventional Love Story
Max Dickson Weaver’s life was a love story although an unconventional one. If you were to have asked Max to rank God, family, country and...

Amyanne rigby
Feb 13, 20247 min read
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Influencer- Caleb Smith
Caleb Smith my Great Great Uncle influenced the lives of two youth for good. On a Saturday afternoon two young boys of Eaton Bray...

Amyanne rigby
Feb 4, 20241 min read
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Witness to History
My life is what it is today because a fourteen year old boy said a prayer. My paternal great, great, great, grandfather James Weaver...

Amyanne rigby
Jan 27, 20244 min read
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Picture This- my favorite photo
A two year old little boy when his father was called to war. Not any little boy... my father Max Kimball Weaver. My dad turns 83 this...

Amyanne rigby
Jan 23, 20241 min read
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Origins- who is Emma?
I have my own Emma. Today, she was set a part as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Tomorrow she will...

Amyanne rigby
Jan 21, 20241 min read
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Family Lore
Recently I came upon the records of my fourth great grandfather, David Lewis. To be honest in all my searching of family records, I never...

Amyanne rigby
Jan 10, 20243 min read
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I'll Be Home for Christmas
I'll Be Home for Christmas... such a simple phrase. What is it it that draws us home for the season? Is it the sights and sounds of...

Amyanne rigby
Dec 31, 20234 min read
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Coming Home
This week's assignment from Amy Johnson Crow was something random. And random enough, this memory popped up on my social media feed so I...

Amyanne rigby
Jul 12, 20235 min read
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Jennie's Writings
Last year, I went through some old boxes of my grandparents' which my parents inherited, and I hit the motherlode. I found two...

Amyanne rigby
Jul 6, 20239 min read
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