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Read more: The cure for boredomMy daughter, Mary Elizabeth, and I were standing in line at the Southwest counter in Seattle when I noticed this quote on a woman’s tote…
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Read more: My family is growingWhile I was visiting our friends Mark and Eva in Bellingham, Washington, I thought about this fact: Sometimes friends seem like family. And, how wonderful…
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Read more: If men had babiesI found a card in an antique shop in Bellingham, Washington, and I couldn’t resist buying it for my friend Kathleen, who is supposed to…
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Read more: A journey to find herselfAmazing! The new Disney movie “Moana” will feature a heroine who journeys to find herself—not to find a man. We read about “Moana” in the…
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Read more: Want to live to be 200?If you want to live longer, you might follow the example of the Greenland shark. A new study in Science reported on 28 Greenland sharks…
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Read more: The meaning of life“Love is our true destiny,” said Thomas Merton, the Catholic writer and mystic. “We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone. We…
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Read more: The beginning of loveThomas Merton, the Catholic writer and mystic, once said, “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to…
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Read more: Love peace“Instead of loving what you think is peace, love other (people) and love God above all,” said Thomas Merton, the Catholic writer and mystic. “And,…
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Read more: Just take a walkI am a walker. Before I broke my leg last year, my dog Ginger and I walked two—or sometimes three miles—every morning. While I was…
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Read more: Read a bookPeople who read books may live longer. Researchers at Yale University studied the habits of people 50 and older and discovered that people who read…