A high school reunion provided a coincidental link between my old home town and my new one. In Nacogdoches, Texas, for the 50th Nacogdoches High School reunion, I had a few minutes to spare and drove by the house on Pine Street in which my parents had lived a long time ago. The huge magnolias h
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01/13/2012
ACTIVE RAIN – GREAT FIRST WEEK OF 2012 The first week of 2012 got me off to a really good start with Active Rain. I finally topped 100,000 – a very small milestone for some of you but it feels good to me, due partly to the December 2011 blogging challenge, which was fun. I started SEREND
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01/06/2012
Someone today mentioned their pleasure in smiling at strangers to try to make them smile, and I told them about the “game” I play – trying to win a smile from someone who looks really grumpy. That made me think of a time I almost didn’t succeed. A big crowd of tired, frustrated people line
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01/06/2012
Total strangers often have surprising connections to us if we're open to them. They've happened so often to me that I'm not just open - I expect them and am delighted when they happen. Several years ago, a buyer found me on the internet and called from California, about to take a job in Kingspo
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01/06/2012
I may be on the track of another serendipity now. Just because there’s so much information available on the internet, I sometimes play detective to see what I can find out about someone I’m about to met to list their house, help them get one, etc. The listing that expired was a house I’d sh
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01/06/2012
THERE'S A NEW GROUP WHERE WE CAN SHARE OUR SERENDIPITIES. I suspect that I’m not the only agent who collects “serendipities”. If you do, let’s share them. There’s method in my madness. My collection is growing and I think it might grow into a book worth reading if enough of my friends wo
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01/03/2012
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2012!!! FROM Mary Sheridan I hope your new year is off to a good start and that you and your family enjoy good health and that your dreams and plans succeed. My business plan is to continue to give the best service I possibly can to the buyers and sellers who choose to wor
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01/02/2012