Don’t tell Dustin, but sometimes he has a point. For six hours out of the day Monday through Friday, September to June, my oldest boys, Ford and Owen, are in school (No. 1 reason not to …
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By Sarah Smiley Special to the NEWS
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6/29/09
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Ever since my oldest son, Ford, 8, was a baby, I’ve had the nagging sense that he is smarter than I am. As an infant, he looked at me in a way that none of my other children since has. Even then, I …
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By Sarah Smiley Special to the NEWS
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6/15/09
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You can put away the Mother of the Year award. I haven’t won it again.
Last week’s column, in which I expressed my frustration over snacks at children’s athletic events, won me few friends. …
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Last week, Dustin and I left our new section of the country in Bangor, Maine, a place that often feels insulated (in a good way) from the negative aspects of big-city living, and traveled to Washington, D.C., and Hampton Roads, Va., to visit family.
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April and May are busy months for military families. May (also known as Military Appreciation Month) encompasses Armed Forces Day (May 16), Memorial Day (May 25), and Military Spouse Appreciation Day …
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Facebook is like a perpetual wedding reception. Remember your wedding reception, when after the adrenaline rush of the ceremony had passed and you realized, quite abruptly, that you were standing in a room with a lot of people from various parts of your past who know too much?
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You stood at the tee, staring out to the field, which seemed to reduce you to a small speck against a canvas of green grass and red, dusty baseball dirt. Part boy and part baby, your knobby knees …
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A scene in the movie “The Way We Get By,” about the troop greeters at the Bangor International Airport, haunted me for days after I saw it. Like waking up with residual feelings from a strange …
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Last week, Dustin and I had the opportunity to attend the premiere of “The Way We Get By,” a documentary film about the troop greeters at Bangor International Airport. The premiere at the …
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