Month: June 2019

Life

Curly Hair 102: (A 10-tip refresher course for curly hair care)

Are you still trying to figure out how the heck to make your curly hair happy? Or has the routine that used to work for your ringlets suddenly stopped producing acceptable results? If so, today’s post is for you: 10 tips to try if your curls are behaving badly. FYI, this is an update of

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Life

Summer Reading: Here’s 21 fiction books (my mother and) I recommend

You know what summertime means, don’t you? Summer reading. Hooray! If you need some book recommends for the beach or your back porch, this post is for you. After spending some time recalling (fiction) books I’ve loved, I crafted a list of the top 21-ish. The Help* by Kathryn Stockett My mother requested this book for Mother’s

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Family

A Father and Child Reunion (An essay on a father. And forgiveness.)

By Jennifer Norstrom Silbert Exactly one year ago tonight, my brothers, their wives, and I were standing vigil over my dad’s hospice bed at my parents’ home in Wisconsin.   We expected, but didn’t know for sure, that Dad wouldn’t make it through the night. His cancer had roared back into his life just three weeks

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Family

25+ Fun Things to Do with Your Adult Kids (after they leave the nest)

On my recent reader survey someone asked, “What kind of activities do you and  Tony-Bear do with your adult kids now that your nest is empty?” I wonder if she really meant to ask: “How do you get your kids to come visit once they’re ‘grown and flown?’” Host “Family Suppers” This was actually our middle-child’s

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