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What If… We Have Some Conversations

16 Jan 202118 Jan 2021
"I believe an important part of the cure, maybe the most crucial part of it, is to talk to each other." ~Emmanuel Acho When I step into the 🏫classroom each…
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What If…the New Year Brings Promise

24 Dec 202026 Dec 2020
2020 has been a lot. 😵The crazy thing about 2020 is that it started off like any other year. Full of anticipation- complete with 🌟hopes and 🌟dreams. We had plans.…
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What If…We Do Things Right

27 Aug 202029 Aug 2020
School🍎 started this week, and I'm not afraid to say that I was 😬anxious about it. Let me tell you how I usually teach my students. There's a desk in…
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What If…You Use Your Mission Field

19 Aug 202022 Aug 2020
In addition to publishing in this space, I have been posting weekly writings to my social media platforms. I don't share everything from this blog on social media. These Sunday…
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What If…It’s the Same and Different

16 Aug 202016 Aug 2020
I haven't had much ⏰time for anything else this week because one thing has been on my mind and my schedule- 🏫school. This is the time of year that I'm…
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What If… the Arrow is Shot?

7 Aug 20208 Aug 2020
I've heard a phrase a few times lately that sparked my interest to learn more.✨ It's actually a Buddhist parable that uses a metaphor of arrows to illustrate pain and…
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What If…We Didn’t Share Everything?

1 Aug 20202 Aug 2020
(Fun fact before you read: As I was writing this piece in early March, I decided that there was a bigger story on the horizon. I scrapped this one to…
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What If…Contradictions Hold the Keys

22 Jul 202026 Jul 2020
I love wordplay. There might be 🍌Bananagrams pieces on our kitchen table any given day. I like to rearrange the letters to spell words- looking for interesting ways to combine…
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What If…Silence is Golden

17 Jul 202018 Jul 2020
When I was sharing a college dorm room with my bud from junior high, we had very different ideas of what we considered to be appropriate noise levels when 📚studying.…
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Buy a Book/Give to Charity

17 Jul 202017 Jul 2020
Hey there! My son, Zane, and I are overwhelmed by the love for our new children's book on Amazon. The Bored Book was such a fun collaboration project for us.…
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What If…We Choose Not to Be Bored

11 Jul 202011 Jul 2020
When we were in the lockdown phase of this 😷pandemic, I was thanking my lucky ✨stars that I didn't have small children at home anymore. Don't get me wrong. I…
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What If…They Tell Your Story

3 Jul 20204 Jul 2020
The Hamilton film came out this weekend.🌟 If you're a super-fan like I am, you've been waiting for this. If you're wondering why this is such a big deal, have…
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Let’s Try to See the Forest

29 Jun 202029 Jun 2020
So, I wrote about choosing sides recently. I talked about how the world seems to make a sport of choosing sides and how we should really work to learn from…
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What If…It’s Not About Choosing Sides?

26 Jun 202028 Jun 2020
When I was a kid, I was always the last one to be chosen for any activity in gym class. I understood why. If you needed to ⚾️catch, throw or…
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What If…We Do Better?

20 Jun 202020 Jun 2020
I have a pet peeve.😞 I can't stand it when I pour out my heart from fear or frustration or disappointment only to have my listener say, "I know exactly…
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What If…You Create a New Habit?

9 Jun 202013 Jun 2020
Things have been pretty heavy 😢lately- and they should be. There's some critical work to do in this 🌎world with race relations and living through the pandemic. The quote on…
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What It…We Listen

3 Jun 20207 Jun 2020
When I wrote my 📚book (LIFEGUARD- available on Amazon), I dedicated a few sections to 💖kindness. In one chapter, I told a story about an encounter with a woman during…
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Maya Angelou Knew

3 Jun 20203 Jun 2020
I don't need to add any other words to this post. Maya Angelou knew what to say. If you're searching for the WHY during this tumultuous time, look to her…
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What If…This Year Didn’t Feel Cursed?

30 May 202031 May 2020
2020 hasn't been the year that many of us hoped it would be so far. There's been a lot to process. 😢This past week, I watched the video of a…
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What if…We Remember to be Grateful?

23 May 202023 May 2020
It's effortless to complain, isn't it? 😞Sometimes, that grumbling reaction is the first one to the surface. As the saying goes- been there, done that. Some days seem to have…

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Dianne Schramm

Dianne Schramm

Dianne Schramm

I'm known for my quick smile, positive attitude, and loud laughter. I absolutely adore my husband and kids. A few of my favorite things (did you just sing that?) are warm sunshine, a pint of ice cream with a spoon, all things Disney, a great workout, random acts of kindness, and loud music in the car. Did I mention coffee? Where else can you find me? Twitter: @dianneschramm Instagram: @sharingthestairs

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One of my favorite memories of my grandfather involves a walk to the liquor store. It's not what you think. 😂My grandfather- we called him Daddy Ah- was one of those guys who enjoyed being with his grandkids. He always had 🕰time for us. My grandparents lived a few blocks from a liquor store. We liked to walk there to get a 🍺Budweiser six-pack for him & a Slim Jim for me. He'd put me up on the high counter while he paid. Sometimes, I also got a bottle of soda pop or a pack of gum. We liked to take the long way to the store, which meant going down an alley to a little culvert below the paved road. He would set up 🎯targets of abandoned cans, & I would toss rocks to see how many I could hit. It seemed like we did that for hours- him setting up the cans & me knocking them down. Then, we'd stop at the store. I usually started to eat the Slim Jim before we even left. He carried his 🍺beer home to have later. Sometimes, later was at a picnic table in the back yard while listening to a ⚾️Cardinals game on a transistor radio that he held up to his ear. He would listen to the game while watching me do cartwheels or play jacks.
When social media first became a big deal, I wasn't interested. 😏I thought it was folks sharing what they ate for 🍝dinner or where they went for 🏖vacation. My own life was screaming by at warp speed, so I didn't envision that I had the time to post my own entries or read those of others. I really didn't know what I had to post that would be appealing enough to put into the 🌎world. I was just living life- like everyone else. Social media was not even a consideration.
A fellow 📝writer & Facebook friend recently included this quote in a piece that I can't seem to release. "What got you here is not going to get you there."💥
Last weekend, I wrote about the importance of honesty. I remembered a time in my life when honesty was needed- yet oh so hard to find. 😔Rather than being open, I chose to hide behind a veil of false happiness & the cultivated 🎭image of a perfect family.
When I was a young mother, I worked with a bunch of incredible women. 🙌🏻We were close as co-workers. We 😂laughed. Shared 💔heartaches. Watched episodes of Seinfeld & Friends. That same bunch took an annual trip to a lake house where plenty of snacks were devoured & memories made. Everyone except me.
"Words can launch us." ~ Bob Goff

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