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Read more: Resolute Woman on the ranchLily Casey Smith, author Jeannette Walls’ grandmother and the heroine in Walls’ true-life novel Half Broke Horses, rode 500 miles to get to her first…
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Read more: We all have textureJeannette Walls, the best-selling author of The Glass Castle, told the audience at a recent benefit for The Stewpot about dating a man from a…
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Read more: Jeannette Walls shares her secretsI recently heard Jeannette Walls tell the riveting story she uses in the opening of her best-selling book The Glass Castle. Walls spoke at a…
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Read more: Why it’s so hard to keep those pounds offTara Parker-Pope, an editor at The New York Times, provides some bad news about why we lose weight and then gain it back again. In…
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Read more: Take care of yourself, tooWhen I first learned that my daughter Ranna would have to go back to the hospital, I thought first about myself. “Oh, no,” I said…
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Read more: Is it still a happy new year?I had been telling myself that my daughter Ranna’s medical problems were ending and that this year would be the start of her healing. I…
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Read more: “Happy in spite of”I must admit that the automobile accident I described in our last blog post and the dismal reality of the cost of a new car…
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Read more: A perfect afternoonI picked a perfect afternoon to visit the horse rescue where my daughter, Mary Elizabeth, volunteers. Even though it was January, it was sunny and…
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Read more: Time to make a resolutionI couldn’t resist opening the People magazine I found in the grocery store. Pictured on the cover were two beautiful, smiling, slender women. One had…
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Read more: Seize the moment with joy and loveOne week before Christmas Eve, I attended a celebration of life for a wonderful friend, Sharon, whom I had known since 1978. She was 56…