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Free Range Parenting
I’ve had three friends forward me a story that appeared in The Washington Post on January 14, 2015, asking me to comment on it. It’s a story about how two parents in Montgomery County are under investigation for letting their children go out by themselves. Specifically, they are being investigated by CPS for neglect because…
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5 Months
We have now lived in Basel, Switzerland for 5 whole months. It’s hard for me to believe it. It doesn’t seem like it’s been 5 months now. It feels more like 2. Or maybe 3. We have been all over Basel. We’ve been to Bern, Lucerne, Geneva, Augusta Rurica, Neuchatel, and Wengen. Not to mention…
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Epiphany!
It’s Epiphany. The holiday where the Magi showed up and gave Jesus presents of gold, frankincense and myrrh, not the sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. (Thank you, Websters.) It was always an overlooked holiday in…
Mindy Carlson 