Wendi's Weekend Trips & Whatnot

Travel. Food. Fun.

Santa Claus Came to Town!

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Editor's Note:  Below is a post I wrote after last year's visit to Wooster's Window Wonderland and visit by Santa Claus. I'm reposting it because if you can, you should try to attend the Window Wonderland this year. It is happening on Friday, November 18, 2016 from 7:00-9:30 p.m. Earlier activities begin at 4:30-7:00 p.m. at Wayne Center for the Arts. Enjoy my flashback post, but more importantly enjoy the festivities downtown on Friday. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...or at … [Read more...]

Fall + Family = Fun

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Fall is great!  It is beautiful with the changing of the leaves. It is bearable with its cooler weather. It is football season. (O.K. maybe the last one only works if you're a football fan.) Family is awesome! It is beautiful building memories together.  It is bearable and easier to let your hair down and be yourself with them. It is nice to have connection with people who "knew you when." (O.K. maybe that last one only works if you have achieved greatness--which I'm still working … [Read more...]

Can’t Believe it’s Been Ten Years and Counting!

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Today I am celebrating my tenth anniversary with The Village Network. Before November 21, 2005, the longest I stayed with any one organization was four years. That was at my college, in the Secretarial Pool, when I was working about 15-20 hours a week, while I was attending classes. When I started at The Village Network, we were called Boys' Village. The organization started in 1946 in a farm house outside of Smithville, Ohio. It was modeled after Boys Town. Since that time, The Village … [Read more...]

77 Hand Motions: You Won’t Believe the Story They Tell

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I signed up to attend a Walk Thru the Old Testament event being held at Parkview Christian Church on October 23 and 24.  I had no idea what to expect. Brian White, the senior minister at Parkview,  had said it was an interactive event that would teach us the Old Testament. The event, when all was said and done, totaled about five hours. We spent two hours on Friday night and 3 hours on Saturday morning. I will say that it was exactly what Brian said it would be. By the end of the event, … [Read more...]

Breaking: I am Friends with Facebook Again

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It has been a couple of years since I have had an active Facebook account.  When I first joined the social media site it was because I gave into peer pressure. "Everyone" I knew had an account, so it made sense I get one, too. Well, it didn't go well. Apparently to get anything out of Facebook, you have to go onto Facebook, at least occasionally. I started hearing my friends (the ones I actually see in person) say things like, "I posted that on Facebook." I realized I was missing out … [Read more...]