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78Five Best-Kept Tourist Secrets of Bellingham, WA
You can consider yourself pretty lucky if you live in a city that attracts thousands of tourists a year and has been named the second best place “to reinvent yourself” by AARP. Bellingham, only 25 minutes...
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75The Inner Light - Families of Children with Disabilities
The phone rings, and there is a hushed, almost timid voice at the other end, requesting some assistance, as these voices usually do when they get me on the line. By the time this woman finishes the description...
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60Forget Money: Back to Trade!
I've decided to take money out of the equation. Seriously. Call me old-fashioned, call me idealistic: I simply can't stand it. It seems absurd to assign an arbitrary value to little pieces of paper or metal coins and make one's life as dependent on...
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68Death with Dignity
A 66-year old Washingtonian was the first to take her own life under Washington's newly passed Death with Dignity Act. Over the years, arguments have been made both for and against assisted suicide, and...
8 comments67Online Education – It's the Future NOW!
A few years ago, I took a leap and returned to school. It was a leap because it required a major balancing act. I had a one-year old with a feeble immune system, an overworked husband, an underpaying job myself, and no money to fund the education I...
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54Memories & Encounters
Stay, they said. -- I had to. No choice. Rest, they said. -- I couldn't. Not ever. Don't worry, they said. -- Were they kidding? Don't get up, they said. -- But I did. My body, my choice. Come back here, they said. -- No way. Let me go. ...
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65What Potty Training and the 2006 FIFA Soccer World Cup Have in Common
I learned a lot about life during the summer of 2006. For that personal growth, I owe major thanks to my family potty and to the German National soccer team. They had more in common than I realized …. My...
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64Fatherhood with a Twist (and a Wink)
This hub is just what the world needed - the jaded view on pregnancy, childbirth, and fatherhood, opined and observed by a woman, for anyone with the male equipment to reproduce. Or for anyone who's just a...
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69A note to my child
In a few years, when the time is right, I will share this with my children. Many of these thoughts are not my own; they've been expressed more eloquently and fittingly by great minds of our time, and of those times before ours; yet they mirror...
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62Ode to a good soul, departed
Soft, sweet-scented handscaressing our foreheads brushing our hair drawing letters on our backs, the alphabet guessing game.Wide arms, always open welcoming hugs miserable good-byes oodles of affection in...
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