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What Can You Not Get Rid Of?
The Brown Chair, Circa 2009 This past two weeks, we went through a really unfortunate series of events that involved us putting an offer on a house, putting our own house up for sale, and then going in...
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Separate but Together: Parenting After Divorce
By Priscilla Wright, M.Ed, LPC,NCC Making the decision to separate may be difficult for most people. When the decision is made, the parties involved may agree that this decision is best for the entire...
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This is Me at 37
photo by sethdickens I turn 37 this week. At work, I can see the Main Street Station tower across I-95. I remember driving to college at William & Mary 20 years ago and seeing that clock tower in...
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Ride That Wave
This summer I felt like we were riding a wave. Good news would come with a crescendo and we’d be riding high and then bad news would come and we would be eating sand and picking ourselves up with...
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Where Did My Childhood Dreams Go?
“I’m going to be the President of the United States.” “I’m going to the moon.” “I’m going to play for the New York Giants.” When we’re young, we have infinite futures. Three-year-olds, who are good at...
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The Friday Kids Club at Virginia Rep is Exactly What We Needed!
I love going out with my friends or having a date night with my husband but babysitting costs an arm and a leg (remember when it used to be $5 an hour?) Suddenly a short dinner or a show tops well over...
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Wine Down Is Back!
School has started, fall is arriving, now it’s time to Wine Down with us at The Wine Loft on Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Each month starting in October we give away great prizes, soak up a relaxed...
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This is About to Save My Busy Weeknights
It’s not that I don’t like cooking; I do, actually. It’s just the frequency. Dinner happens every. Single. Night. And usually, I’m short on time. And ideas. There is an ideas issue too… and then of...
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Top 5 Lessons Learned 24 Hours into New Motherhood
When my son was born, two new beings emerged at once: my little baby, along with a revamped version of myself. Here are some truths I learned in a single day after becoming a mother for the first...
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Love to the Working Moms
I’m feeling much love for my fellow working moms after an enriching experience this week working alongside other moms-of-young-kids who work outside the house like I do. Fellow working moms, sometimes...
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How To Help A New Mama Friend
I think of visits to my new baby-mama friends in three categories: Needs food. Needs errands. Needs company. Each mama may need only one or a combination of all three. I pretty much stayed in bed the...
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Without Change, I Might As Well Be Sleepwalking
Our seventeen hundred square foot house is sold. It’s time to clean house. NO, really, I mean clean house. We are moving into a mere 850 square feet of living space. Some of my friends and family...
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Get Weird
Antonyms for normal: abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, odd, out-of-the-way, strange, unusual, weird When I was in high school all I wanted was to be normal. When my mom asked me if I would jump...
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Separate but Together: Parenting After Divorce
By Priscilla Wright, M.Ed, LPC,NCC Making the decision to separate may be difficult for most people. When the decision is made, the parties involved may agree that this decision is best for the entire...
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Ride That Wave
This summer I felt like we were riding a wave. Good news would come with a crescendo and we’d be riding high and then bad news would come and we would be eating sand and picking ourselves up with...
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Where Did My Childhood Dreams Go?
“I’m going to be the President of the United States.” “I’m going to the moon.” “I’m going to play for the New York Giants.” When we’re young, we have infinite futures. Three-year-olds, who are good at...
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The Friday Kids Club at Virginia Rep is Exactly What We Needed!
I love going out with my friends or having a date night with my husband but babysitting costs an arm and a leg (remember when it used to be $5 an hour?) Suddenly a short dinner or a show tops well over...
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Wine Down Is Back!
School has started, fall is arriving, now it’s time to Wine Down with us at The Wine Loft on Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Each month starting in October we give away great prizes, soak up a relaxed...
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This is About to Save My Busy Weeknights
It’s not that I don’t like cooking; I do, actually. It’s just the frequency. Dinner happens every. Single. Night. And usually, I’m short on time. And ideas. There is an ideas issue too… and then of...
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Top 5 Lessons Learned 24 Hours into New Motherhood
When my son was born, two new beings emerged at once: my little baby, along with a revamped version of myself. Here are some truths I learned in a single day after becoming a mother for the first...
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