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Are You Acting Like a Child? The Benefits of Embracing a Childlike State of Being
We often use the phrase “acting like a child” as an insult for adults who may be seemingly irresponsible or immature. However, in business we need to take risks and be able to adapt quickly to change, so as a business owner, it can be helpful to have childlike faith and embrace a childlike state…
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Weekend Wanderer: Ketchup, Hot Dogs, and ‘The Bear’
I’m bingeing The Bear. And I have eyeballs with nerves connected to my brain. So I’m somewhat bewitched by Jeremy Allen White. I can’t even talk about his Calvin Klein ad. Except to say the socks and sneakers at the end are no good. No good at all. A conversation between his character and another…
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Family Fun-Filled Weekend: Local Easter Celebrations and Much More!
Local Kid-Friendly Activities To Enjoy From March 29 – 31 Hop on down to one of the many Easter celebrations scheduled in the local area! It is a jam packed weekend of family holiday fun at several nearby attractions. Sign up for the Easter festivities at Shady Brook Farm, enjoy brunch and an egg hunt…
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An Ordinary Life for Broomall Couple Includes an 81-Year Marriage
Broomall couple Anna and Albert Squilla say they live ordinary lives, yet they are testimony to a long life and a marriage of 81 years, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times. Anna and Albert Squilla are both 100 years old and happily married. “She has been a wonderful wife,” Albert said. “He was always…
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Morrisville Couple Sells Pokémon Collection to Fund Home for Foster Teens
Morrisville resident Mel Kulenski, a dedicated social worker and foster parent, made the difficult decision to sell her cherished Pokémon collection to fund renovations for her inherited childhood home, writes Laura Hoover for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The sale fetched over $10,000, thanks to a rare, first-edition Charizard card. Mel, a Pokémon fan since the mid-1990s,…
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Weekend Wanderer: Where’s the Music?
So there I was, streaming Moonlighting in all its Bruce Willis glory. There was a scene in Moonlighting that, well — it didn’t change my life. Not exactly. But it holds great significance. Affected me. In one episode, a pre-China Beach Dana Delany hires the Blue Moon Detective Agency. It turns out — oops! —…
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Family Fun-Filled Weekend: Disney On Ice, Michaels Kids Club, Newtown Theatre, and More!
Local Kid-Friendly Activities To Enjoy From March 22 – 24 With Spring’s arrival, several area attractions are officially opening their doors for the 2024 season! New Jersey’s charming family theme park, Storybook Land, and Hellerick’s Family Farm’s high-flying Aerial Adventure Park in Doylestown will begin welcoming guests on Saturday. Diggerland USA, Six Flags Great Adventure,…
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Weekend Wanderer: No Turbulence for Me, Thanks
Twenty years ago, I was flying from Denver to Telluride, Colorado. It was a small plane. Buddy Holly planes, I call them. I could see straight into the cockpit. Flight attendants and beverage service would have been laughable on such a minuscule plane. Instead, the pilots conducted the safety briefing. “If you see us screaming,”…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Dangers of Nominated Films
I had two days until I left to visit my daughter’s college in Florida. It was time to prepare. As in, time to watch Alligator and Society of the Snow. I don’t know why I do these things. Alligator, I think, is self-explanatory. An oversized alligator terrorizes a Missouri town. Released in 1980, it stars…
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African American Genealogy Group in Philadelphia Helps Woman Find Her Ancestral Roots
The African American Genealogy Group, a local group of researchers is helping African-American people who want to find their ancestral roots, reports Ukee Washington for CBS News Philadelphia. While the internet has made genealogy more accessible, the legacy of slavery makes it harder for Black people to find their histories, as census records before emancipation,…
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Manor College Student Talks On Palestine, Becoming a Teacher and How a First-Generation Scholarship Helped Her
Amani Kayed cringes when people ask the Palestinian college student if she has any family in Gaza. While she has grandparents that live in the West Bank, her frustration lies in the way the question is asked. “The way the question is posed, it makes it seem like everything there is OK if you don’t…
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Weekend Wanderer: Heavy Is the Head That Watches ‘The Crown’
It’s time to put a period on The Dork Series. Or an apostrophe, am I right, guys? An apostrophe! Ahem. Anyway. I have spent most of the last month taking classes on the Tudor monarchy. One lecture was called — I’m not making this up — “Dressing like a Queen: Elizabeth I’s Wardrobe and Her…
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Weekend Wanderer: A New Book and My Secret Passion
I’m calling these last few weeks of columns The Dork Series. Apostrophe love. Bad dancing. If I told you about the history courses I’ve taken recently, you’d probably give me a wedgie and dunk my head in a toilet. So yeah. Let’s make it worse. A year ago, when Burt Bacharach died, I confessed my…
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Philadelphia Metro Tops the Charts for Highest Cost of Living in Pennsylvania
While the average cost of living for a family of four in Pennsylvania comes in at $87,500, if you live in the Philadelphia metro area, you will need to make significantly more than that, writes Ashley Adams for The Keystone. The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator measured the income a family needs to have…
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WSJ: Why Eastern State Penitentiary Became a Popular Wedding Venue in Philadelphia
In 2021, Christina Spence and her husband Ricky Scalia eloped and got married at Eastern State Penitentiary and it had to do with the fact that Spence wanted to have a simple wedding, writes Joel Millman for The Wall Street Journal. “My cousin got married in a castle. We wanted to have a unique stress…
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Weekend Wanderer: I’m Here to Preserve the Apostrophe
It all started with an article in The Guardian. The headline read “Hampshire villagers bring street’s apostrophe catastrophe to a full stop.” I clicked on that article. Oh yes, I did. Because of all the ills in the world, of all the daily nuisances, my pet peeve is the absent or incorrectly used apostrophe. Now,…
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Weekend Wanderer: Will I Ever Be Cool?
I’ve been up to something on Sunday mornings. Besides, you know, bombarding you with words. It began two months ago. But its roots go back to Halloween. Specifically, Shyamaween. As a horror movie fan, I seized the opportunity to be under the same roof as M. Night Shyamalan. Wait. Sorry. I mean I seized the…
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Weekend Wanderer: I Tried Cupping
I want to talk to you about cupping. Relax. It’s not a sex thing. I think my editors would shut that down faster than January’s snow melted. And it’s probably time I told you one of my editors is my godfather. Which did not get me this job. As my godfather, he is obligated by…
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