How to be a Dad!
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How to be a Dad!
I just love this quote from Ryan Reynolds. Especially as it so perfectly fits the scary, stressful hours and days after Benjamin’s birth.
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Live boldly!
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Live boldly!
A special quote o’ the day featuring my favorite Declan o’ the day!
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GRAND Social No. 344 link party for grandparents
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. Err, social that never ends. Thanks to you.
Link up, share, be social!
Cheers!
Read MoreFlashback: 10 signs of aging gracefully
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Dear readers: This piece on the secret to aging gracefully originally appeared on Grandma’s Briefs on March 24, 2013. Six years later, the signs still resonate with me. I hope they do with you, too. Thank you for reading my rerun.
When it comes to aging gracefully, forget the face creams, hair colors and exercises — the physical manifestations others see as we rack up the years. Instead, I prefer to focus on a different kind of trait that others see, one I think trumps the physical when considering how gracefully others are aging and how gracefully I'm aging myself.
That trait? It's attitude. For, as age is just…
Read MoreGrandmas can change the world!
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How grandmas can change the world!
Maria Shriver publishes a weekly newsletter, The Sunday Paper, that's chock-full of positive information and inspiration. I was once a diehard reader of the print Sunday local newspaper but nowadays The Sunday Paper is the one and only newspaper I peruse, nay, devour on Sundays.
In yesterday's The Sunday Paper was a quote that especially resonated with me, as I think it...
Read MoreA 'Disquiet Time' gem
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I am a sucker for a good quote, as this post and this post attest. I recently checked out from the library Disquiet Time: Rants and Reflections on the Good Book by the Skeptical, the Faithful, and a few Scoundrels, edited by Jennifer Grant and Cathleen Falsani, and while reading Tracey Bianchi's touching (and truth-filled) essay "One Disgusting Mess," the following passage jumped right off the page and into my heart:
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