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When Your Annual Reading Goal is Already at Risk
The first Sunday in March, and my 2024 reading goal is already at risk. What?!?!?! By this time last year, I had finished eleven books. That’s right. ELEVEN!…
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Sometimes You Shouldn’t Watch the Trainwreck
Almost everyone has heard (or used) the expression that something was like watching a trainwreck. It’s something embarrassing or terrible, but you can’t seem to make yourself look…
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Is Mommy and Me Still a Thing?
When I was a toddler, Mommy and Me groups weren’t a formal thing. In a time when most moms didn’t work outside the home, neighborhood moms organically came…
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The Status Quo of the Stages of Grief
Most people have heard Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. After we lost Dennis in September of 2020, I learned that those stages…
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Cliffhangers Make Me Want to Jump Off a Cliff
Cliffhangers in a television series give me something to look forward to in a new season. Most shows re-air the cliffhanger episode prior to the start of the…
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College Admission Really Isn’t What It Used to Be
Wow, has the college admission process changed! I mean, I know society progresses, technology advances, things change, but whew…this has been enlightening. When I applied for college in…