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"Once in Royal David's City" is one of my favorite Christmas carols. When I was eight, my class sang it in the school Christmas concert … and I've loved it ever since. David's City is, of course, Bethlehem, the town where Jesus was
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I talked to one of me teens recently about the Roman concept of "bread and circuses," things leaders used to comfort and distract the masses. Bread came in the form of free wheat for Roman citizens, and circuses came in the form of the Colosseum in Rome and
Culture
There's been a flurry of films in the past few years about kids and the screen-based life they now live. There was Screenagers in 2016, Like in 2018, The Social Dilemma in 2020, and now Childhood 2.0. This likely isn't an exhaustive list, either, and
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Traveling military is often unpredictable, at times inefficient, and usually slower than you'd like. I knew all this well, but nothing prepared me for our journey home this past summer. In June we moved from Greece, where my husband was working, back to America. He works for the
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Greece is – as you may know – a hub for refugees heading west from unrest in the middle east; last count I heard, there were around 65,000 refugees in the country. I get folks asking about the refugee situation here, and the truth is: I'm not too well-versed
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So I have this daughter… (Don't you love that? Couldn't a blog post go just about anywhere with an upfront disclaimer like that? Because I know youhave a daughter… or a friend, dog, husband, whatever… who could be a story-starter too.)
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I don't know if you could say that we've carved out a "normal" for ourselves yet,six weeks into living in Crete, but things are definitely feeling a little more stable. The chore chart's back in action for the first time since
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Want to know a good time to lose stuff? When you're moving. Mercy, is that a good time to lose stuff. Exhibit A: our son's bathing suit. He needs Speedo jammers for swim team, and last year's was thin to the point of (ahem)