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Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is editor-in-chief of Catholic Digest and Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea, Mom to Mom, Day to Day, and most recently Small Steps for Catholic Moms. Though she once struggled to separate her life and her …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
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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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com and the author of A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms and The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also enjoys speaking around the country, is employed as webmaster for her parish web sites and spends time on various …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
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

Rebecca Teti
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

Robyn Lee
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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DariaSockey

DariaSockey
Daria Sockey is a freelance writer and veteran of the large family/homeschooling scene. She recently returned home from a three-year experiment in full time outside employment. (Hallelujah!) Daria authored several of the original Faith&Life Catechetical Series student texts (Ignatius Press), and is currently a Senior Writer for Faith&Family magazine. A latecomer …
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Guest Bloggers

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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Waiting For Rudy

how simple kindness elevates us all

If you need a little Christmas, right this very minute, read this heartwarmer of a story.

Little Sam has cerebral palsy and relied on his father to carry him up and down the stairs.

Then his father developed a heart condition and couldn’t lift heavy weights any more.

Enter Rudy Favard, local football star….

Be sure to read to the end, for Rudy’s own perspective on what a helpless child can do.

Merry Christmas!


Summoned!

I served jury duty yesterday.

I know we’re not supposed to—and in the spirit of friendliness I made my share of jokes—

but I actually like jury duty.

“Like” might be too strong a word. The trial process is fascinating, but it’s easy to sit on a jury for one day; I’m well aware my tune might change if I were suddenly yanked from my life for a three-week process.

Yesterday was a matter of sitting... READ MORE 


Are You Neighborly?

Do you hang out with or hide from your neighbors?

We have lived in our current house for almost nine years, having moved in when Adam was in Kindergarten.  Living on a cul de sac, we have experienced very few comings and goings during that time so we’re mostly surrounded by the same folks who lived on our street when we moved in.

I have to admit, we’re not a very neighborly bunch.  Shortly after we moved in, the neighbors on one side of us came over... READ MORE 


In the Neighborhood

How do you live?

A red car pulled into our driveway early this morning. I was heading out with the trash when our barking dog alerted me to this intrusion.

“Can I help you?” I asked the man who stood by his car, eying the dog warily.

“I’m lost,” he said. “I’m looking for the McClarens? They live on this road, I think.”

“Sorry, I don’t know them,” I told him.

It was true. The fact of the matter is, however, that the... READ MORE 


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