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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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This is normal, right? Not everybody can make it to everything – we all have busy lives. And not everybody is good at communicating. We can’t expect everyone we invite to show up for our thing, to help our idea materialize.
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I have three teen girls who enjoy a good drama or rom-com, and we’re no strangers to the Pride and Prejudice movie with Keira Knightley (2005). It’s a fun watch, and there’s something intriguing and compelling about the period, costumes, balls, etc. The tale is set just over...
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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.)