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This One Time at Summer Camp….
While I spent a lot of time at camp when I was younger—Girl Scout camp, church camp (hey, I’ve already admitted to being a goody-two-shoes in What’s the…
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What Do You See When You Look in the Mirror?
When I look in the mirror, I see someone I never expected. Two days from today, Dennis will have been gone for two years. At this time two…
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Is There Any Way I Would Survive “Survivor”?
I have watched every episode of Survivor—all 620 of them (Confessions of a Reality TV Junkie), from season 1 when Jeff Probst was the blandest host on television…
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Come On, You Spurs or Bear Down, Chicago Bears?
This past Friday, I attended my daughter’s high school’s first football game of the season. I was there with my sister-in-law Stephanie, her husband J, and her mom…
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Surviving Life as a Former Neat Freak
I used to be a neat freak. There…I said it. I’m talking everything had its place, socks arranged by color in the drawer, literally hundreds of books and…
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Your Pride is the Only One that Matters
A few weeks ago, one of the neighbor kids rang our doorbell to inform us that my brother-in-law Rodolfo’s Samoyed was out of the yard. We were able…