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Cracked: A Marriage Reflection
The following is a guest post by Meg McMahon. One evening recently, I brought some dishes from the other room into the kitchen. I had not been in the mood to empty dishwasher, refill it, and thereby...
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In Between Here & There
The following is a guest post by friend, parenting expert & children’s book author Rachel Cedar. There is a stretch of train track between San Diego and points north that runs parallel to the...
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July & August: Where I’ll Be
July. A brand new month. The plan was to come here today and announce the next topic for my HERE Year. In case you’re new to this site, I have, along with Lindsey Mead, undertaken a yearlong...
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The Here Year Month #4: Time
September. The girls go back to school next week. I go back to blogging today. The past two months have been fantastic and fast. I know it is cliched to bemoan the swift passage of time, but that’s...
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How Are You Spending Your Time?
there are only 24 hours in a day. After a dinner of takeout last night, I leaned over the top of my kitchen island last night and looked Husband in the eye and confessed something: I’m feeling...
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A Happier Hour with Jennifer Senior & 10 Things You Should Know About Parenthood
Last winter, Mom told me about a book she’d read. It’s very interesting, she declared and this meant something to me because my mother, a voracious reader, has a high bar for literary praise. I bought...
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How She Does It: Brettne Bloom
meet brettne. … I’m not a morning person, so the first hour of my day is like stumbling through a fog until I’ve had my first cup of coffee. My two daughters share a room and they’re usually up and...
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ADR Friday Loves 09.19.14
i’m loving… … this reminder. (You will cry. Thank you, Rudri.) … this song I just discovered on Spotify. … these backpacks. … this article on the death of adulthood. … this store/neighborhood hub. …...
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Please, Please Enjoy Life
Please, please, enjoy life. These are not my words. They are Charlotte Kitley’s words. Words from her final blog post entitled “And So There Must Come An End.” Charlotte had cancer and died this week,...
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After I never saw him again… until I did
As part of my HERE Year, I solicited submissions on this month’s topic of Time. The loose guidelines: Tell me about a Moment in Time when your life changed (for the better or worse)… Could be the...
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Sticky doors, crashes, change
Below is another fantastic guest piece on Time for the September month of my HERE Year. I have received so many great submissions, that I will be posting two a day through the end of the week. Okay,...
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Lessons on Gratitude & Surrender
What follows is another wonderful Time submission for the HERE Year. I received so many essays that I will be posting two a day through the end of the week! Enjoy. Lessons on Gratitude &...
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Bagels and Cream Cheese
What follows is another beautiful submission for the HERE Year topic of Time. Bagels and Cream Cheese by Adina Teitel Kahn I arrived at my parents’ apartment at 9:00am that Saturday morning. I rang...
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Between Light and Darkness, Sacred and Profane
Between Light and Darkness, Sacred and Profane by Samantha Brinn Merel The candle flickered wildly as it was held high above our heads in the darkened sanctuary. A hush fell over the crowd as the...
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12 Closing Thoughts on Time
Today is September 30th. Another good month has slipped on by. I’ve so enjoyed exploring and examining Time and this marks my final post on this fourth topic of my HERE Year. As with Home, Parenthood,...
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The HERE Year Month #5: Friendship
October. A brand new month and my absolute favorite time of the year. It’s my birthday month (I turn 36 on the 4th!), Middle Girl’s birthday month (she turns 6 on the 19th!), candy pumpkin season...
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Live, Love & Be Happy
Yesterday, I announced that the October topic of my HERE Year is Friendship and I’m thrilled to bring you words from a friend today. I met Debi in the fall of 2012 when our daughters, Big Girl and S,...
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The Fine Art of Friendship
Friendship is an art. More than ever, I believe this. It’s certainly not a science; there are no strict rules, formulas, equations. Friendship is fluid. And unique. No two friendships are the same. I...
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Dear Friends
Do you have a friend who is going through something really tough? I bet you do. I bet you do because I’m realizing that adulthood is inescapably tricky terrain. That, at any given moment, we will all...
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