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This summer, I was on a quest for the long lost treasure. I wasn’t quite sure where I would find it, who it would be with, or if I would...

My younger daughter recently asked if there was a way to send her idea to a movie company. She said she had a great idea and wanted...

16 years ago, Scott proposed to me on the dock at our favorite family summer vacation spot, Bass Lake, California. It was a place I went...

I stumbled across a book last night that was gifted to me over a year ago. It was titled "Three Moments of Joy” A Guided Journal for...

In an article titled “Why We Eat together” by Louise O. Fresco, “The table is a place of memory where we. . .become aware of who we are...

As an adult, as a parent, as a teacher for 20 years, I have found that I have been dating myself lately, talking about how different...

I grew up with quite a bit of anticipation in my life. The holidays were big, the countdown to our birthdays were exciting, graduation...

I have seen children be more resilient in the past 3 weeks than I have seen in my 19 years of teaching.