By Shellie Miller The holiday season is officially upon us. Charger mom Chrissi Vadala says “This is the most treasured three months for our family… And it goes by so fast!” Traditions for her family begin in mid-October and start with a pumpkin carving contest between her three children. The anticipation of Thanksgiving has her […]
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By Shellie Miller I, Me, My… all words that are useful in crafting communication, but focus the subject squarely on the person speaking (or writing). A pet peeve for most of my career, any of those three words starting the first sentence of any correspondence have me irked from the get go. And my belief
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By Shellie Miller Whatever school grade level an American mother has accomplished personally, if she’s got at least one child older than 12, she is smarter than a fifth grader. Math, science, spelling, social studies, geography; Most of us have done at least once ourselves, and then for every child we’ve reared, we’ve accomplished it
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By Shellie Miller-Farrugia Recently at the park catching up with a friend, I had the opportunity to stroll with him while my husband took photos for this issue. My friend had been told by an athletically minded source that there was a girl who played well and fit the age parameters for the travel team
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By Shellie Miller Uncertain as to what brought on my recent realization of the importance that numerals have played in my life, I decided that writing would be my catharsis and hopefully hatch some revelation. A deep relationship with numbers does not require mathematical wizardry, and for most of us, begins as soon as we
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By Shellie Miller-Farrugia Sometimes things don’t work according to plan. We often set out to accomplish a particular thing, a goal a dream…and then circumstances take the plan off course. After the initial disappointment, indigestion and insomnia, the consequences we may have imagined are often an ugly figment of our imagination. More than two decades
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