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When The Party’s Over
People plan, prepare, and anticipate Halloween with great excitement. And just as quickly, it’s gone. Walking around the neighborhoods, exclaiming “trick or treat” with gusto, gathering candy like it’s a career, and existing on a small but significant sugar high makes it all more fun than any child can imagine. Until it’s over. It was…
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Who Are You Fooling?
Halloween originated from the Celtic festival of Samhain, a festival marking the beginning of the new year on November 1. The Celts also believed that, on the night before the new year began, the boundaries of the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred, so ghosts were allowed to return to earth. People…
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When Someone Lives Your Dream
Yes, I was one of those girls. You know, the kind that loves horses, who would do anything to be able to ride a horse, and asks every year for Christmas for one of her own. That was never a practical ask. We lived in the Chicago suburbs. One of my dreams was to someday…
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More Isn’t Better
photo courtesy of Frank van Hulst on Unsplash I can’t stand Pinterest. My girls got me interested in the various things that appear there that can actually be helpful. Things like recipes for people who are gluten-free and dairy-free, or what is acceptable to wear with tennis shoes to the office. You know, the important…
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Puzzled
Most of my kids, while growing up, loved to work on jigsaw puzzles. I started them on the wooden puzzles that had the picture of the piece in its space, and all they had to do was match the pieces. They graduated to the 24-piece puzzles that challenged them to figure out where the pieces…
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