Book Review: My Daughter’s Keeper by Mark Winkler
“My Daughter’s Keeper” is the story of Mark Winkler, both how he came to terms with the harm he caused as a father and what he did to heal.
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Change – A Poem by Julie Clark
Change can be painful, but it is also transformative. What does the hard work of change do in our lives when we open our hearts to it?
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Parenting Now: The Importance of Bridging the Generational Divide
Bridging The Generational Divide Over the past few years, we’ve heard the term “millennials” frequently thrown about. Often when we hear it, it’s used…
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Based in Paris: Pizza for Christmas
Turn Toward NOËL Noël, French for Christmas, is derived from the Latin verb nasci, meaning “to be born.” In the book of Ecclesiastes, the birth…
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Thoughts on Covid-19 Holidays with Linda “Peaches” Tavani
My Covid 19 Thanksgiving into Christmas, 2020 I am inspired to share the way I feel during the pandemic with you. About what I…
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Book Review: A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a heart-wrenching true story about the author’s (Ishmael Beah) experience as a child soldier….
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The Giver: A Dystopian Classic
It is a common anecdote that the word “utopia” has a twofold meaning: “perfect place” and “no place”. In the definition itself, a utopia…
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Animal Farm: What Does It Teach Us?
Summertime is the perfect opportunity to finally get around to reading those classics you’d always heard about. I had never happened to read Animal Farm…
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Transitions: Country Mouse, City Mouse
When I married Mike in 1983, I moved to Pasadena, California for the first time. Having grown up in the San Gabriel Valley,…
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Five Things I Learned From Kazakhstan
My husband and I moved to Kazakhstan back in 1995 with our two small children, aged 2 and 4 months old. To say it…
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I Smell Christmas – A Poem by Sylvia Syms
Photo by: Jacqueline Pine scented candles line the mantles. The smells of cinnamon and allspice wafting from the apple and sweet potato pies and…
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I Wish That I Could Love a Dictator – A Poem by Georgia Sanders
oh that i could love a dictator he would solve all my problems he would put bread on my table and never forget to…
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