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Under the quarantine microscope: What I’ve learned about my husband of 27 years

Our family members are the people we know best. Living together makes us intimately familiar with each other’s personalities, likes, dislikes, quirks and habits. We know intuitively what the other person is thinking or feeling, without a single spoken word…

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Chicken Soup editor gives glowing review of ‘My True Lit Com’

Back in 2017, I ate dinner with Amy Newmark, the Editor-in-Chief of the Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise, which has over 250 book titles, along with other products, television shows, and podcasts. Obviously, Amy and I weren’t sharing a deep dish at Pizza Hut or a Bloomin’ Onion at Outback. We were at the…

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Tiptoeing around Class of COVID-19

“Mom! We’re out of avocados!” my 22-year-old daughter, Anna, bellowed. “And where are the goat cheese crumbles?!” People all over the globe are covering their faces and hands before entering grocery stores to buy life-sustaining food staples for their families sheltering at home, only to find them sparsely stocked. But in Anna’s world, being out…

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The Zoom Boom

via GIPHY Recently, a television jingle got stuck in my head. It’s from a PBS kid’s show I used to watch in the 1970s. My brain’s recesses are imprinted with hazy flashes of the program’s ethnically diverse cast of pre-teens dressed in matching striped shirts and bell bottoms, singing the opening sequence’s jazzy theme song….

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