While we sit around the dinner table and I look back and forth between my moms, I remember how it was hard to understand, as a kid, that it was okay to have a different family. I used to think that something was missing, that there was something wrong because I didn’t have a father. …
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Family Matters
The Season of Gratitude
It’s that time of year. I log onto Facebook and up pop the posts. “I’m grateful for my kids.” “I’m grateful for my job.” “I’m grateful for kind people.” Don’t get me wrong. I’m grateful for my kids, my job, and kind people. I think my kids are hilarious. They like to record silly videos…
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Are Your Words True, Kind, Necessary?
This is the question posed by the sign in front of Doylestown United Methodist Church. It sits on busy Swamp Road (aka Route 313) so many people pass it often. Personally, I am a member there and my children are very involved in different groups, so I’ve been known to pass that sign up to…
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The Tao of Meow
To turn a repeated phrase from the Old Testament, “And these are the generations of…my cats: Ming I, Taffy, Ming II, Zoe and Maxine Von Kitty, Mama, Chuck, Bud and Lou, Sam and Dave Silverman, Harry, and Eve and Calpurnia. Some of them ran the house on their own, others – and you can tell…
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Be the Good
This graphic showed up in my Facebook news feed one day and I thought, “I really love that.” (Though, Facebook really only lets you commit to liking something – love not yet an option.) So, I “liked” it. Being good isn’t easy. Or, figuring out how to be good isn’t easy. There are tons of…
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Integrity
Integrity: A Woman’s Place is of sound moral character and adheres to ethical principles. I thoroughly enjoy the magic of the internet. The internet gives us that essential power to take a word like “Integrity” and dissect it. We can ask the internet, “What does it mean to be of sound moral character?” and then…
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Deep Thoughts
On Sunday, December 30, I was in a pew at Doylestown United Methodist Church at 8:15 a.m. when Reverend Michael Murphy (Pastor Mike to all of us who know and love him) delivered his sermon on Simeon and Anna. I admit, I still can’t tell you much about Simeon and Anna. That was not my…
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