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Trip 8: Cut short by coronavirus

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When your phone begins to vibrate incessantly at 2 o’clock in the morning it’s usually the precursor to big news. In this case, it was a flood of texts from…

6 words that should go in the parenting manual: A milemarker parenting moment

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Betrayal at any age hurts. When you are a teenager, it is devastating. So when my daughter found out a girl she thought was a friend said something about her…

Why I push my daughter to do hard things

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I’m not a sky diver but I’ve jumped out of a plane. I’m not a runner but I’ve run every single mile of a half marathon. Every once in a…