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When news of the Roberta II landfill first broke last May, I admit my first reaction wasn’t outrage like so many. It was something closer to a shrug. After all, I grew up around it. In conversation, if not in practice. I had an uncle who owned a waste management company. Garbage wasn’t some distant…
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Let’s talk…Autism: “Raising a Child, Not a Diagnosis: One Family’s Shift in Understanding Autism When Sarah Mitchell’s son, Caleb, was diagnosed with autism at age three, her first reaction wasn’t confusion—it was fear. “I thought everything about his future had just changed,” she recalls. “I didn’t know what to expect, and honestly, I didn’t know…
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Easter week-end 1963. I remember very well. Momma always allowed Terry and I to die eggs on Saturday evening. She brought home McCormick food color from the store. The kind with the little pointy, color caps. There were only 4 colors, red, blue, yellow, and green, but you could mix red and yellow to make…
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Let’s talk… The Courage to Be Yourself In a world filled with expectations, comparisons, and constant noise, one of the hardest things a person can do is simply be themselves. Poet e. e. cummings once wrote, “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you…
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Over the weekend, I watched “Reality Check,” a documentary series revisiting the now-maligned “America’s Next Top Model.” What struck me wasn’t just the criticism of a show we once loved, but how confidently we act like society was once misguided. I have to roll my eyes at that. We like to think ourselves as evolved,…
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About two weeks ago, I did the unthinkable: I downloaded TikTok. After months of friends insisting, cajoling, threatening, and guilt-tripping, I finally caved. I’ve yet to decide whether that was a good thing. I needed another social media account like I need a hole in the head, but here we are, like a moth to…
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Let’s talk… How Not to Lose Yourself in a World Full of Expectations Have you ever found yourself saying yes when you really meant no? Or agreeing with something just to keep the peace—only to walk away feeling unsettled? Many people don’t realize it, but this is how we slowly begin to lose ourselves. It…
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Happy 67th Birthday to Barbie! I’m writing this week about my favorite doll from my childhood. Barbie is only a few months older than I am, and I got my very first Barbie in 1962, when I was 3 years old. She was a number 4 Barbie, meaning she was the fourth edition. I wish…
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The television series Love Story, chronicling the lives of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr., recently hit on something personal – the helplessness of being public property. Recent episodes have shown Carolyn Kennedy’s struggle to deal with the incessant press intrusion and strangers commenting on her life. While she endured this on a very…
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Let’s talk…“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – (Mahatma Gandhi) When we think about Women’s History Month, our minds often turn to well-known names and remarkable public achievements. And rightly so. Many women helped shape this country in visible and historic ways. But this year, I…
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