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Date Night: Not Necessarily Valentine’s Day
I was looking for something different leading up to Valentine’s Day this year. It’s been a rough one so far, with periods of intense family illness and more than the usual stressors at work and home. The idea of sitting in the dark under Staerkel’s enormous aluminum dome, immersed in light and sound, appealed to me.
Continue reading...Coping When One Parent Travels
2. February 2010
There's nothing quite like a business trip to upset the delicate balance of a family's ecosystem, but there are ways to cope when mom or dad leaves the family behind for a few days.
Continue reading...Mom to Mom: First And Lasting Love
1. February 2010
Nine years later I can say that the love that I have for Ben, my husband, is quite different from the love I felt so many years ago. I think that the loss of anyone’s first love is heartbreaking, but the more I mourned it, I realized that I was grieving the loss of my innocence and the romantic ideas that I had about life.
Continue reading...Have Your Inner Chef Pampered
11. January 2010
When the opportunity fell in my lap to have a Pampered Chef party, I thought, what do I have to lose? It would be a great opportunity to bring my friends under the same roof. And how great is a party when you a) don't have to prepare the food or b) provide the entertainment? And -- as an added bonus -- you can SHOP!
Continue reading...Being a Jew in C-U: Off to Church I Go
7. January 2010
Recently I went to church. OK, I can't believe I just wrote that sentence. More accurately, I went to a baptism that just happened to be in a church. Of course, because that's where baptisms usually take place.
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12. February 2010
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