Published by Valerie Curren
Valerie is a Christian wife, mother, & "warrior". She has four grown children, including one son with complex special needs. She blogs (periodically) at SpecialConnections.wordpress.com on wide ranging & more random topics and formerly at http://www.carepages.com/carepages/JournalingForTheJazzman which was more focused on aspects of the journey her family has been through managing the needs of her disabled son, including an emphasis on their Liver Transplant roller coaster ride, culminating in his Transplant in 2013. These CarePage posts are now "archived" at https://jazzmanjournal.wordpress.com/ Valerie also archived a friend's carepages Liver Transplant journey at ChristLikeKara.wordpress.com
Replacing the carepages-styled updates is another blog
https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/josiahcurren/
where she posts more detailed info about the ongoing journey managing her special needs son's issues & brief updates on other family matters.
Valerie chooses not to be on Facebook, but many of her family are there including all these Currens: Michael, Nathaniel & recent bride Tara, Brandon, Josiah & Clarissa. Her mother Elaine & brothers Curtis & Michael, all Stoddards, are also on Facebook as are most of their family members. Her husband's former bands also maintain a presence on either Facebook or ReverbNation.com. These bands are: Binding Faith, Harken, & the Lively Pelts.
She also recently began a new blog, PioneerPerspectives.wordpress.com where she plans to focus on some historical aspects of her personal & familial experiences with a special emphasis on churches, schools, & communities, including analyzing key aspects of each arena from a therapeutic perspective...
She is a hobby genealogist & is grateful to have discovered her mother's birth family more than 60 years after that private adoption occurred. She is passionate about Jesus, her family, Truth, & conservative cultural values. She has been through higher education in science (undergrad) & counseling (grad school) and is a Licensed Professional Counselor, though is currently not practicing. She has historically worked in leadership in churches, schools, government, & medically based arenas. She enjoys reading, puzzles, hanging out with family (& instigating conversations), supporting her husband's music endeavors (especially his Christian Rock Bands), & encouraging others.
Valerie also advocates for her special needs son who is now finding his own voice online. Check out Josiah's sites here:
https://josiahsfreakshow.wordpress.com/
https://josiahthesecretweapon.wordpress.com/
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Here is a new, test, post for the Q-Tree’s new format. Blessings!
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Uh. Seriously. Is this the place?
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Yes. That was just a quickie post to check that things worked OK for me as an author, not a serious spot for Q-Tree level conversations necessarily. No offence meant, but I usually operate from a Christian worldview AND it (hopefully) spills over in the bulk of my writing…Blessings!
If you haven’t checked out my recent Slaughter post, by all means take me to the woodshed there if need be. 😉
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Good to go, Valerie. Thank you for the uplifting posts.
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Thx AND YW TB Blessings!
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Thanks for this test run! Excellent. We have achieved minimum battle readiness.
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Awesome!
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I’m trying to see if I can comment on ANY Q-Tree stuff right now.
I just tried to reply to TradeBait via the notifier (& we were conversing on today’s daily) AND the reply wouldn’t go through.
I’m technically Only signed in to WP but in using the notifier I found a link to this post to see if I could comment there.
I’m at the public library AND both the Chrome AND Firefox browsers are blocking the Q-Tree. Here’s the warning:
Network Security Appliance
This site has been blocked by the network administrator.
Block reason: Gateway GEO-IP Filter Alert
IP address: 88.214.194.166
Connection initiated towards country: United Kingdom
I did NOT log in to Q-Tree because I can’t get to it. So this temp Q-tree is allowing me access via WP alone. Is this a security issue Wolf???
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Well at least this means I can comment on the “new” but temp Q-Tree.
Is this good or bad?
Granted, I just wanted Peter Stormare after drawing straws but can’t hear & this looked possibly fun…
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For what it’s worth being on “my sites” in the top black ribbon I can get some Q-Tree info, including seeing the draft posts I have pending. The stats never showed AND I didn’t see the info I usually see when I Log In to Q-Tree usually (though technically I’m Not logged in). I’ll go see if I can actually open one of those draft posts now…OK it appears that I can’t actually see the draft post either…
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Proverbs 24:10 is a brilliant choice.
It is justification for our fight.
It is why we fought the NAZIS.
BATTLE STATIONS!!!
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AND here we go. God steer our ship AND help our aim be true!
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Hey Wolf, someone I don’t recognize called “yearningabstractly” wants to test reply on my post. That’s yours to do with what you will!!!
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No problem! See my other reply to you on this topic. They were “approved by a like”, but it’s OK in this case.
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Thanks. For JW in Germany (I believe) I initially hit approve AND like because I thought I recognized them. But didn’t send a reply AND re-thought that someone could be pretending to be a familiar name so I unclicked Approve & the comment went back to gold highlighting.
We’re not supposed to touch any of those gold comments that represent people, right?
Obviously the gold items that come from WP, like an approve request for a link to another post from one of my blogs that I put into the post are OK for me to handle…Hope that’s clear AND correct…
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AND JW in Germany needs approval at my first post. I may have inadvertently given approval to someone that I thought was from the Q-Tree there. Please double check that ALL activity on that Valerie Test Post is OK–when you get a minute 🙂
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Yes. yearningabstractly is a long lurker who make initial comments near the very beginning of the FIRST site. When you LIKED her comment, it automatically took her out of moderation. The way it works is that if you LIKE or REPLY to a moderated comment, the poster come out of moderation. This is why, if you don’t recognize them, don’t touch the comment in any way. But no harm done this time!
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OK thanks for the heads up. Tail between my legs on the faux pas (again). When I hit like but not approve their comment still stayed with the gold highlighting for me so I thought it was not out in the open–my bad 😦
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Yeah, that interface update (where liking changes “Approve” to “Approved” with change of the border color) is really slow sometimes, and does not indicate what is actually happening down low in WordPress code. Basically it’s a BUG. There should be almost zero latency.
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OK thanks for explaining.
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Testing!
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Welcome!
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Thanks WM. You must be a circus act retiree for all the plates you can keep spinning simultaneously 😉
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Thank you 🙂
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Hope you speak up on occasion here too. 🙂 Blessings!
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Testing 1 2 3 testing 1 2 3😎
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Glad you got in OK! Blessings
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Well I don’t know what’s going on, usual site is down and tried all the others but can find no up to date comments, and I’m on a lot later than usual so where is every one.
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Same here.
I verified (somewhat) that the problem isn’t on my end.
I checked the u tree, and the post thread here, just below this thread – yours is the only comment!
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Weird. I hope Wolf is on this AND that it is resolved now!
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Uh oh. I’m just getting back on today after having no Q-Tree access at the library yesterday (library computers were apparently blocking the site). I could still comment on this temp newQTree, where this post & Wolfie’s reside. I also dropped a note at the U-Tree w/out issues then too.
Hope the probs have resolved by now!
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Valerie,
Can you let me in? After loging in as a new writer WordUnimpressed has decide I am NOT the same person and continually locks me out whether I use my new password or not despite Wolfie ‘blessing me’ a few days ago.
I am having trouble with the other too.
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So hopefully Wolf helped you out for I gave him a link to the comment. If he did, because the comment isn’t showing as “gold” any more, then I hope he also helped you with whatever access &/or other issues you might still be having.
Can’t wait to see Whatever Posts you end up putting up!!! God Bless YOU, Gail!
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I am FREE!!!
So thank you Valerie.
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BTW, it is not certain whether you will show up as gailcombs or Gail Combs on the main site now – just as long as you show up, period.
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Yes!!!! Getting there is “half” the battle 🙂
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No prob. Glad you are unchained!
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