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Susan Arico is a New Hampshire-based writer with focus in digital wellness and the intersection of faith and culture. You can follow her on her substack, For the Sake of the Good.
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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)
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Wednesday night's AWANA night. The kids have been in the program for three years, and you could say the Wednesday AWANA drill's pretty well established. One Wednesday night a month or two ago I was pulling out of the church parking lot after dropping my kids
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Rain was forecast the day our "goodbye Aricos" gathering was scheduled – a scenario unheard of in sunny Ventura, land of no-raindates-needed. The two beloved neighbors hosting the shindig on the tight, well-kempt cul-de-sac we called home decided to postpone a day. The adjustment conflicted with a few schedules,
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This spring my consulting has involved research and analysis on college athletics. One aspect of the work has encompassed the faith-athletics connection. If sportsmanship and godly character are well established among athletes, is winning performance also critical? Questions like that. (Turns out this topic is a relevant and widely discussed
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I've gone through a kind of metamorphosis in my spending habits in the past couple years… Or maybe you could say, in how I think about spending. I used to put off spending money on things for myself, dither and procrastinate while my mixed feelings rumbled. If I
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"After I wrote it I had a vulnerability hangover," I said to an old friend as we sat talking about life and writing over dinner. "Isn't that the best term?" he said. He also writes, and often about close-to-the-heart topics where truth and poignancy
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My kids are obsessed with Alvin and the Chipmunks. Last month the oldest, who's 10, went with a friend to see the latest movie in the theatre; he came back fixated on the hip, wee creatures with the helium-balloon voices. He's a Star Wars lover and