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Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is Editorial Director of 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 work, the two …
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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 is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com, a Catholic web site focusing on the Catholic faith, Catholic parenting and family life, and Catholic cultural topics. Most recently she has authored The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also employed as webmaster for her parish web sites. …
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Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their young children Camilla and Blaise. 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 is ABC Family. …
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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 is the managing editor of Faith & Family magazine. She is (yikes!) an almost 30 year-old, single lady, living in Connecticut with her two cousins 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 …
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Hallie Lord
Hallie Lord married her dashing husband, Dan, in the fall of 2001 (the same year, coincidentally, that she joyfully converted to the Catholic faith). They now happily reside in the deep South with their two energetic boys and two very sassy girls. In her *ample* spare time, Hallie enjoys cheap wine, …
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Fr. John Bartunek, LC
Fr John Bartunek, LC, STL, received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. After college he worked as a high school history teacher, drama director, and …
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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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Elizabeth Foss
Elizabeth Foss, an award winning columnist for the Arlington Catholic Herald, published her first book, Real Learning: Education in the Heart of My Home in 2003. The book is now in its third printing. Her popular blog, In the Heart of My Home is a source of inspiration and support for Catholic women …
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Oh, the shame of it!
Posted by Rebecca Teti
in Just me
on Saturday, July 17, 2010
A friend who despises the Twilight series took the quiz at the “I Write Like” site and came up with Stephenie Meyer. Horrors!
Curious, I plugged in one of my Faith & Family columns for analysis.
Yikes! Maybe the real magic of the quiz is that it intuits which author you feel most smugly superior to and takes... READ MORE
How's your civic literacy?
Posted by Rebecca Teti
in News
on Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Here’s a fun little exercise as we approach our national civic holiday, Thanksgiving.
As we thank Our Lord for the blessings of liberty among so many others, do we know how our civic liberty is maintained?
Try your hand at this 33-question civic literacy quiz.
71% of Americans can’t pass it—and don’t snicker, but elected officials actually do worse than the general public.
Guess what else Ladies?... READ MORE
Pauline Fun
Posted by Danielle Bean
in Faith
on Friday, November 14, 2008
Use this international, interactive quiz to test your knowledge of the life of St. Paul during this, the Pauline year.
Can you finish the journey? I can’t yet. But I plan to master this one before passing it on to the kids.
Where do you fall on a broader spectrum?
Posted by Danielle Bean
in News
on Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Are you tired of the limiting labels of “Democrat” and “Republican” this election season? Do you feel like neither of these terms describes you exactly?
Then maybe you should try out this political test that I recently found to be enlightening.
Using a series of questions about a variety of topics, it helps you look beyond the simple labels of “Democrat” and “Republican” and see where you might fall... READ MORE
What's your personality?
Posted by Danielle Bean
in Family
on Friday, September 05, 2008
A few months ago, I read The Temperament God Gave You: The Classic Key to Knowing Yourself, Getting Along with Others, and Growing Closer to the Lord
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I was fascinated.
I quizzed myself, my husband, my kids, and my extended family members. I labeled the temperament of everyone I knew. Some appreciated my analysis. Some didn’t.
“You are such a ... choleric melancholic!” I accused my unsuspecting husband.... READ MORE
What makes you late? Take our quiz and find your tardiness cure!
Posted by Melissa Hartog
in Mind Games
on Friday, August 15, 2008
Are you chronically late?
Sick of the panicked, helpless rush? Here are questions to help.
STEP ONE: Look at yourself.
Lay down on the psychologist’s couch. Your attitude toward your tardiness is the first thing to look at. Which of these statements best describes you?
A. I’m fine. I’m always at my desk before 10, in Mass before the Gospel, at parties when people are actually there and talking.
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