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Weekend Wanderer: Spending a Week with Thailand
I promise this isn’t another column about scuba. But. Given my aquatic adventures of late, I am obsessed with two cinematic genres. The first is scuba and scuba-adjacent horror movies. “Should you be watching this?” my husband sighed as I watched Blake Lively’s battle for survival against a shark oblivious to any food that wasn’t…
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Weekend Wanderer: Getting on a Parent’s Bad Side
I’ve entered a new quadrant of the Willie Universe. The likelihood that someone I know could wind up living in the apartment next to Willie has got to be slim, right? But the likelihood this situation could ruin my life is a guarantee. It all starts with my daughter. Wasn’t I just saying last week…
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After Losing Her Brother to Suicide, Meridian Bank’s Lisa Carmoli Is an Advocate and Pillar of Meridian Community
September is National Suicide Prevention Month. As a suicide loss survivor, Lisa Carmoli, an Executive Assistant at Meridian Bank, works to share her family’s story of grief, love, and extreme support. In May 2019, Carmoli experienced a devastating loss after her brother, Mike, died by suicide. Since his passing, she has become a prevention advocate…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Cold Shower Trend Became More Than a Trend
I think having kids made my life better. Wait. Do I? Yeah. Yes. I do. Made my life better, made me a better person. Yeah. Sure. Take this summer. I drove my kids to New Jersey on 31 separate days this summer. One day, I drove to New Jersey twice — two entirely different directions. …
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Philadelphia Native Herbert J. Siegel, Pioneer in the Entertainment Industry, Passes at 95
Philadelphia native Herbert J. Siegel, the billionaire entertainment-industry mogul who enabled the merger of Warner Communications and Time Inc. and sold ten television stations to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, died on August 5 at 95, writes Sam Roberts for The New York Times. Siegel was the son of a Philadelphia immigrant overcoat manufacturer who reaped massive profits…
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Drop in Popularity of Her Name Makes Philadelphia Teen a Rare Young Members of L.I.N.D.A. Club
Due to a huge drop in the use of the once mega-popular name, seventeen-year-old Linda Jack of Philadelphia is one of the rare young members of the L.I.N.D.A. Club, writes Jon Kamp for The Wall Street Journal. However, for the Philadelphia teen, the rarity of her name is an asset. “I’ve never met someone with…
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