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Celebrating the Three Fathers in My Life

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Father’s Day is not as popular as Mother’s Day. To begin with, we spend half as much on gifts for dads than they spend on us. And yet, fathers have a huge influence on us and deserve as much recognition as—sometimes more than—mothers.…
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Dear Father's Day, Why Are You So Lame?

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Dear Father's Day; Why are you so lame? Every year you come around without a lot of fanfare. You sort of creep up on us near the middle of June and everyone seems to forget until it’s too late that we’re supposed to be celebrating you...…
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Visiting St. Augustine, Florida With The Kids

St. Augustine, Florida reminds me of the South of Spain, where my two daughters were born. It’s hardly surprising, since the city was the first settlement in the United States, established in 1565 by the Spanish. It is now celebrating the…
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Name Change After Marriage: I Do or I Don’t?

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Making the decision to change your name when you get married can be a difficult choice; at least it was for me. I struggled and went back and forth with my decision. So today, even though I sometimes go by my hyphenated last name, legally…
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Why Some Couples Choose to Be Child-Free

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You know that couple down the street from you, they go on daily runs together, travel frequently and are always out working in their yard? Maybe you’ve felt bad for them, because they don’t have any kids to fill up their home and play…
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Gay as the New Normal

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Sometimes parents’ dreams for their children are deferred or redefined. One of those instances is when parents have to face the reality of having a gay son or daughter. For Fela Rodriguez, an elementary school teacher, knowing that her daughter…
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Stroke Awareness: In My Family, It’s Personal

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Ever since I was a kid, I’ve dreaded having a brain aneurysm or a stroke. This might seem like an odd thing for a little girl to worry about. Unless, of course, that little girl’s mom suffered from a massive stroke at age 28, when her…
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Facing the Unthinkable: National Missing Children's Day

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Adam Walsh. That was the name of the boy who woke me up to the reality of children being abducted and killed. Adam Walsh was abducted from a Sears store in Hollywood, Florida on July 27, 1981. He was just six years old. Two years before Adam…
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5 Ways to Renew Your Vows & Rediscover Your Love!

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David and Victoria Beckham did it; so did Celine Dion. And Matt Damon and his wife of almost eight years, Luciana, just did it last month. But renewing marriage vows isn’t just for music legends and movie stars, and your guest list doesn’t…