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Karen Mains

Medicine for Mouth Disease

When Mainstay Ministries produced six broadcasts per week (for twenty years), taped one television show per day (for six years), and…

4 min readSep 8, 2022

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Medicine for Mouth Disease

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Karen Mains

Text Neck: Now What Are We Doing to Ourselves?

One of the modern activities that irritate me some, but alarm me considerably, is that even in a restaurant, sitting around a table, a…

4 min readAug 30, 2022

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Text Neck: Now What Are We Doing to Ourselves?

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Karen Mains

FIVE SIGNED PRINTS

We turned the little downstairs bedroom (which two sons have inhabited, in addition to various live-ins, my brother-in-law’s gardener — a…

2 min readAug 26, 2022

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FIVE SIGNED PRINTS

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Karen Mains

A Prayer for Obscene Telephone Callers

Once, years ago, an obscene phone caller contacted me on our home phone. I won’t repeat the venom he spewed over the phone line — but just…

4 min readAug 12, 2022

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Karen Mains

Who Will Fix The Hole?

In front of Señora Margarita’s house, right beneath her door, a crack opened in the street.

6 min readAug 3, 2022

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Karen Mains

Planting Gardens Above Calle Mayor: Alcalá, SPAIN

On my first morning in Alcalá, Spain, my sleep was interrupted by what sounded like a dissonant cowbell, irregularly rung. Clunkg-clunkg…

4 min readJul 12, 2022

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Planting Gardens Above Calle Mayor: Alcalá, SPAIN

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Karen Mains

Fixing Things Up

When it comes to fixing things up, my husband, David, and I are the kind of people who take a while to get around to the tasks at hand. The…

7 min readJul 7, 2022

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Fixing Things Up

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Karen Mains

Mis-steps

One of the great assets of keeping a daily journal (which I have done now for 59 years) is reading back over the life you once lived, the…

4 min readMay 7, 2022

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Mis-steps

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Karen Mains

“Karen! WATCH OUT!!!”

I heard a muffled warning through the ear protectors I was wearing. Six women — all friends — had traveled with me from the Chicago area…

4 min readApr 13, 2022

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“Karen! WATCH OUT!!!”

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Karen Mains

You Find What You Look For

Has anyone ever pronounced this truism over you? “Well, you find what you look for.”

3 min readApr 11, 2022

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You Find What You Look For

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Karen Mains

Karen Mains

Author, speaker, radio and TV producer and co-host, Karen’s voice is substantive, often humorous, but always practical. Books: https://amzn.to/31SzJNz

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