Wellness: Moving Beyond the Definition
Type the keyword “travel” and a host of websites queue up to ask you when and where you want to go and what sort of lodging you’d like when you
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Curing the Ill[iteracy]
We did it! We trained 39 volunteer adults and 14 volunteer high school students to tutor 39 second graders twice a week from October 2022 to May 2023. Not all
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Hold Onto Your Dreams . . . Loosely
I doubt you’ll ever hear this admonition from popular media. The mantra most consistently reinforced in our culture goes something like this: “set your dreams high, cling to them with
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How Do You ‘Do’ Summer?
In the United States and the rest of the northern hemisphere, the first day of the summer season is the day of the year when the Sun is farthest north
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Straddling Two Worlds
Last week, Elsie and I accompanied our senior at Watkins Mill High School to the annual gala international night they have every year in their cafeteria. It’s always fun to
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Faith in the Impossible
I cannot speak for other faith traditions, but for the two with which I am most familiar the high and holy celebrations this week share the same inception: an unprecedented
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To Stop a Runaway Horse You Have To Catch Up To It First
The 2015 movie Inside Out is the story of Riley, a boisterous 11-year-old girl, or more specifically, the inner emotions of her brain, respectively portrayed by a cast of animated
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From Majority to Minority
Once again, Germantown MD has made the short list of most diverse cities in the nation, this year coming in at #1 based on a carefully calculated amalgam of ethnic,
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Orthodoxy and Orthopraxis
As President Jimmy Carter now terminally nears the end of his long life at age 98, I am compelled to make a left-field comparison of two American giants of the
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Right-Sized Influence
Influence comes in many flavors: fame, quick-wittedness, smarts, sway, charm. Influence is a form of power over other people. It’s the ability to get other people to do things –
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