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Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their 4-year-old daughter, 2-year-old son, and twin boys born May 2011. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site …
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Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee is a 30-something, single lady, living in Connecticut in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law and six kids ... and two doors down are her parents. She received her undergraduate degree from …
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Kate Lloyd

Kate Lloyd
Kate Lloyd is a rising senior, and a political science major at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. While not in school, she lives in Whitehall PA, with her mom, dad, five sisters and little brother. She needs someone to write a piece about how it's possible to …
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Lynn Wehner

Lynn Wehner
As a wife and mother, writer and speaker, Lynn Wehner challenges others to see the blessings that flow when we struggle to say "Yes" to God’s call. Control freak extraordinaire, she is adept at informing God of her brilliant plans and then wondering why the heck they never turn out that …
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The View from My “Office” This Morning

"Camping" comes in many styles

Once again, the old age question begs to be asked - “Is it ‘camping’ if you have a wifi connection?”  This is the view this morning from my “office” - a lawn chair perched along this cliff in Pacifica at the backside of our 28 foot trailer.  The only sounds around me are the waves crashing and the gulls loudly calling to one another.  A fine mist covers everything, but I’m warm in front of a toasty campfire with a cup of strong coffee at my side and wearing the Clint Eastwood-esque poncho we picked up on a camping trip to Old Town San Diego.

A few years ago, Greg and I saved up and purchased the Mallard, a dinky little trailer from the early nineties that’s barely big enough to sleep the four of us and feeling smaller by the day as my boys grow into men.  A few times a year, I’m lucky enough to con my normally camping-averse husband into a few days of “camping”.  This is far from the “roughing it” camping most of you know with tents and homemade trail mix.  Our camping adventures normally take us to the outskirts of big cities or to well appointed national parks where we have most of the comforts of home.  But somehow, living for four days in less than 300 square feet continues to feel like an adventure despite the fact that we have electricity and hot water.

So this morning, as my boys slumber, I’m sipping coffee and counting my blessings.  Having successfully survived day one of this summer’s camping extravaganza, who knows what adventures today will bring?


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Thanks for reminding me it’s time to book our summer camping trip. We’re California tent campers so I can relate to the coastal sea breeze, the quiet crash of waves and the steamy cup of coffee. Our four children have grown up with the roughing it get away so no matter how old they get they still look forward to the cold and hungry, romantic camping trips with kayaking in Morro Bay and the thankful return to a warm bed.


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