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Bloggers

Meet the Faith & Family bloggers. We invite you to join us in encouraging and helping the Faith & Family community grow in faith!

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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Sept/Oct Issue Now Online

Read Faith & Family for free -- for a short while longer!

The September/October issue of Faith & Family magazine is now available online for all readers.

Not to miss: Rebecca Teti’s column on marriage, Dr. Lisa Klewicki’s helpful look at recognizing, diagnosing, and treating depression, Susie Lloyd’s fun-filled guide to All Saints day celebrations, Elizabeth Foss’s lovely review of Crawdad Creek, Margaret Berns’ inspiring story of a mom facing cancer, Carmen Staicer’s guide to packing school lunches, and lots more!

Beginning November 1, 2008, all online magazine content will be available to subscribers only. Don’t be left out! Subscribe today!


Helpful Hints

group blog reading made easy

I posted some information in this week’s Coffee Talk that might be useful to all readers, so I thought I should share it here too.

For those who are used to reading our bloggers’ personal blogs, navigating through the group blog format here at Faith & Family Live! might be a bit overwhelming.

If you prefer to read only one blogger at a time, you can do that here. Clicking on the name of any blogger in the “posted by” section at the top of a blog post, brings you to “their” page that shows only their posts.

See here: Rachel, Rebecca, Lisa, Arwen or Danielle. Happy reading!


Re-reading is Great

Books can be like old friends

I have been visiting old friends this past week, and enjoying it immensely.  More specifically, I am re-reading L.M. Montgomery’s Anne books.  Nearly everyone has heard of Anne of Green Gables but I love not just the first book but the whole series, and have read all of the books more times than I can count.

I know there are people who don’t re-read books.  I had a friend in college who thought me... READ MORE 


Guilt Be Gone

No matter how many children we have, each child is born into a different family -- with a different mother.

When my oldest child was a toddler, we read stacks and stacks of story books every night. She had her favorites memorized and we would spend hours each evening enjoying them together, over and over again.

These days, I sometimes look at my younger kids and feel a pang of guilt. When did we last spend hours and hours snuggled together on the couch reading and re-reading favorite classic stories before... READ MORE 


Tired, with Garfield

Someone recently emailed me to ask if I ever get tired. The question made me laugh out loud.

I am sorry to disappoint anyone out there who has great faith in my personal indefatigableness, but I have to admit that yes, sometimes I do get tired. Very tired. Exhausted even.

Just yesterday, in fact, I was feeling especially tired. Tired of emails. Tired of dishes. Tired of phone calls. Tired of bickering... READ MORE 


Improvements

Faith & Family Live! has a new option to make reading here easier. At the bottom of the main page for each entry, below the comment form, you’ll now see links to the main pages for the next and previous posts. Using these, you can click straight through complete posts and read everything here without having to go back to the home page and click “read more” over and over. Happy Reading!


Brain Food

We’ve had more than our fair share of rain here in New Hampshire over the past several days. We Beans have been more fortunate than some, though. Yesterday’s wild storms and floods left many people with damaged homes and personal injuries. We’ve only gotten a thorough soaking.

With weather keeping us all indoors, though, our boys have been going a little stir crazy. A trip to the library where we... READ MORE 


Pages Ahead

I've always wanted children who would share my love of reading

When I was a kid we didn’t have a television, and my five younger siblings and I loved to read.  Our favorite night of the month was Library Night, when our parents would take us to the library and we’d check out a big pile of books.  We thought it was cruel of them to limit us to eight books each, but 6x8=48, which is a lot, so I guess they were justified.  Anyway, we were voracious readers.

For... READ MORE 


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