Carnival of Family Life

Welcome to the Carnival of Family Life: Celebrate America Edition! This week, Americans observe the Fourth of July with their families. Picnics, potlucks, camp-outs, swim parties, boating adventures . . . and best of all, fireworks will remind us how lucky and blessed we are here in the “land of the free and the [...]

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She remained motionless in the living room, straining to recall the day upon which she wrote the song she heard emanating from the tape recorder. But she could not.

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The silence between them was interrupted only by the sound of his reaching into his pocket for a ring of keys. He set them on the table.

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The New Year’s festivities are getting underway!

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It seemed as though they had been sitting in the car for hours. The weight of the topic, her son’s expectations, and her responsibilities bore down on her, making her feel as though she could not breathe and tempting her to simply open the car door and run as far and fast as she [...]

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They all knew. But none of them would speak of it. It was business as usual. On the surface. By all outward appearances. Perhaps they all thought that if they ignored the elephant in the room, it would eventually turn and go back out the door from whence it came.
Life [...]

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Everything had to be perfect. The house had to be spotless, with no clutter. “Everything in its place and a place for everything,” her mother told her countless times as she was growing up.
The dinner had to be cooked just as her mother herself had cooked the same meal so many times: [...]

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