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“Christmas Ever After” is Lifetime’s Most Inspirational Holiday Movie Yet!

If there’s one thing we need in 2020, it’s a breath of fresh air. Or possibly several of them. I’ve been glued to the television watching (or just listening in the background as I clean or cook) the holiday Lifetime movies which started at the end of October. They have saved me. Some say that’s…

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College During a Pandemic: I Discovered What Mattered Most to Me About Friends

I never liked going to parties, but at the beginning of this semester, I found myself craving the excitement of dancing in a dark basement with loud music and strobe lights. It was the second week of classes and the closest I came to a party was a socially distanced hangout of 10 people in…

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From a Doctor: My Young Patient Taught Me Lessons About Gratitude

Many years ago in residency, I had the pleasure to meet an early-adolescent boy whose spirit has stayed with me to this day. He was sick and facing a long treatment plan for a tumor that did not threaten his life but changed his appearance and needed removal. His family was poor and moved frequently

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From a Doctor: This Boy Taught Me All I Needed to Know About Gratitude

Many years ago in residency, I had the pleasure to meet an early-adolescent boy whose spirit has stayed with me to this day. He was sick and facing a long treatment plan for a tumor that did not threaten his life but changed his appearance and needed removal. His family was poor and moved frequently…

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A College Senior Describes Her Experience of Quarantine on Campus

In 2020 life unexpectedly changed for everyone, and normal, daily life was put on pause. We all began to feel anxious and uneasy about the world as we stayed put in our homes in quarantine during the spring, unsure of how life would proceed. Summer came around and society pressed play again as states loosened

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College Senior: Fall Was Strange and Then Got Stranger in Quarantine

In 2020 life unexpectedly changed for everyone, and normal, daily life was put on pause. We all began to feel anxious and uneasy about the world as we stayed put in our homes in quarantine during the spring, unsure of how life would proceed. Summer came around and society pressed play again as states loosened…

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All That I Loved About Christmas as a Child is Even Better Now

I was in the craft store the other day and came across a display of those ceramic, table top, light-up Christmas trees. I almost had a nostalgic meltdown right there in the holiday decor aisle. Those little trees took me back to Christmas past when I was a kid, and it was a wonderful place to…

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Two Ways to Head Into 2021 With Less Clutter and More Serenity

My oldest turns 24 next year, my youngest 20. Suffice it to say we are beyond the baby years. Yet my storage closet still houses tattered Baby Einstein videos and unopened Diaper Genie refills. Ah those were the days. Decades ago. A Goodnight Moon Board Book with some tiny teeth marks. A stained Baby Björn. …

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This 2020 Holiday Letter Is One That We Can All Relate To

The final month of 2020 has blessedly arrived. Can I get an “Amen?”  We’ve all been more than ready to be done with this year for months, as social media has proven, showing us fully decorated Christmas trees that have been up for weeks in many homes, providing beacons of shimmering light to guide us…

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I’m a “Forever Mother:” I’ll Take Care of My Child for the Rest of His Life

Forever Mother [ for·​ev·​er  moth·​er ]: a mother who will spend the rest of her life taking care of her child’s day-to-day financial and health care needs. She will arrange appointments, oversee medical care, and manage bank accounts long into his adulthood. I’m not sure when I started to think of myself this way. I guess it was…

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