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Lori Lyons

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in Houma, Louisiana, The United States

March 08, 1962

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Louisiana born and raised Lori Lyons spent 26 years as an award-winning sports writer and a general assignment reporter. An avid blogger, she shares her continuing adventures as the suburban wife of a high school baseball coach, the mother of a fast-growing teen, the stepmother to two young adults and the caretaker for aging mamas at www.thelyonsdin.com ...more

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Mardi Vieux

Everyone has heard of Mardi Gras.
It's Fat Tuesday, the day before the start of Lent, when everyone -- Catholic or not -- indulges in all kinds of questionable behavior before (presumably) giving it all up for the 40 days leading up to Easter. Supposedly, it helps you get into Heaven.
In Louisiana and some other southern outposts, Mardi Gras is a paid holiday when just about everything closes - Read more of this blog post »

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“God has three answers to our prayers:
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― Lori Lyons, Adopting in America: The Diary of a Mom in Waiting

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“God has three answers to our prayers:
1. Yes
2. Not yet
3. I have something better in mind

anonymous”
― Lori Lyons, Adopting in America: The Diary of a Mom in Waiting

tags: inspirational

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“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

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