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Read more: Playing outsideWe all need to spend more time playing outside. Studies show that children spend less than 30 minutes a week playing outside. That’s right. Thirty…
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Read more: The end of summerBefore Labor Day arrives—and it’s coming soon, I’m going to take a summer afternoon off. I’ll read a book—or go to a movie—or maybe I’ll…
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Read more: Wonderful and most wonderfulI’ve known Stephanie, who is the same age as my daughter, since she was in elementary school. Now she’s a teacher and the mother of…
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Read more: Wild and freeIt’s August, almost the end of the summer. The vacation season is coming to a close. Sooner than we realize, we’ll begin the months of…
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Read more: Disguises and prettinessOn her journey across Australia with four camels and a dog, Robyn Davidson enjoyed freedom from “the perverted crippling insanity” of “social graces and female…
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Read more: Good luck and staying powerSometimes success has much less to do with courage than “sheer good luck and staying power,” says Robyn Davidson, who writes about her journey across…
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Read more: The story of your lifeYou are the director of the movie of your life, Ann Madonia Casey reminded me in a recent essay in The Dallas Morning News. “In…
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Read more: Try to be a rainbowI asked for pretty stamps at the post office—and I got them! They’re stamps adorned with a lovely, smiling photograph of Maya Angelou, author of…
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Read more: A familiar roomKirsten and Dieter are “dearest friends,” but they have differences of opinion. They have had the same argument for years until it became “something like…
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Read more: Clothes are armorMiranda, who is 27 and divorced, is taking classes and looking for a job. She spends money on expensive clothes because she has “come to…