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What To Say Instead When You Can’t Say “There’s Always Next Year”

I was a senior in high school when I royally bombed an audition for an honors choir Id gotten into as a sophomore and junior. I was doing too many other things at the time and should have gracefully bowed out before I tried to cram for it and ended up falling very ungracefully on

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What This Mom and Teacher Misses the Most

I am a teacher and a mother. To describe these as remarkable times is to both understate and express the obvious. Ive been at home for two days, something Id usually give my right arm for, and Im already feeling the fray.  I am a mother and a teacher As a mother, I am housing

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Mom in Italy Shares Her Secret for Living Life and Taking Care of Her Son

Here in Italy, we are several weeks ahead of the U.S. although the word ahead seems inappropriate. We are all just helpless humans at the mercy of a virus that we are just beginning to understand. How we got here In Tuscany during the first few days after schools closed, parents were still arranging playdates

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Stuck on the Side of a Mountain, I Saw My Daughter in a New Way

You could say, by some measures, that my 22-year-old daughter hasnt followed a set path. Three years ago, halfway through college, she dropped out abruptly to become a farmer in Vermont. Next stop was California, where she raised goats and lived in a religious community. Now sheʼs in Costa Rica, where she manages a wellness

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My Three Kids Structure My Days and Anchor My Life

I get up every morning with my children. As soon as the alarm goes off, I know theyll be slowly coming to life and making their way to the bathroom. I know I need to be ready to give them the 6:30am reminder since they need to be out the door by 7 to make

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Social Distancing and Teens: 30 Things They Can Do Alone or With the Family

We all know that teenagers are social animals. This is the time in their lives when they begin to really pull away from us, and attach more with their peers. Its a natural phase of development that prepares them for adulthood. As they move towards independence, their peer relationships help define their identities. During the

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Be Careful What You Wish For: My Empty Nest Is Unexpectedly Full

As of yesterday, my nest is once again unexpectedly full. And while Ive spent the past year and a half lamenting its emptiness and wishing for more days where the four of us could cohabitate under the same roof, this isnt right, and certainly doesnt feel the way I thought it would. Last

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Letter From a High School Teacher to Her Students: We Miss You So Much

Dear High School Kids, We arent the kindergarten teachers. I dont keep the same twenty something kids throughout the entire year, and throw classroom parties for each ones birthday. Those are the kind of teacher posts Ive been reading nonstop, and I admire those teachers.  I empathize with how theyre heartbroken they are missing handshakes,

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A Memory that Used to Make Me Happy Now Tears My Heart in Two

It feels like a lifetime ago that our little family of four travelled to the ocean for a vacation, one of those family trips that, upon recollection, imprinted countless golden moments on my psyche. My girls were just 8 and 4 at the time, and my husband and I had packed up the coolers, wide-brimmed

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Here’s The Unvarnished Truth: I’m Scared Out Of My Mind

I just finished cleaning the bathrooms and vacuuming the floors. Since we started self-quarantining Ive struggled to do the simplest tasks at the end of the day so I decided to try and get them over with in the morning. I cant look at myself in the mirror Every time I passed by a mirror

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