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7 Quick Takes Friday: Fishy Fridays, shamrocks and what makes our family special, a sacristy tour, Steve McQueen, and other highlights

Happy Friday! I enjoy meatless Fridays much more than I should. I love fish sticks, canned tuna and salmon, every kind of fish I’ve tasted (unless eel is a fish), and I don’t need meat to make me happy. So I should probably be giving up something additional on Fridays.Although
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7 Quick Takes Friday: The view from our riverbank, walkie talkies in action, surprises, mini golf, the best sister-in-law ever, and more

What a troubling time. So much violence. So much anger. I went to a vigil today because I felt it was the right thing to do. I didn’t think I was going for myself. But I came away with a sense of peace and gratitude for my community.I was thinking about whether
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7 Quick Takes Friday: Guess what we’ll be for Halloween, Pokemon hunting, the left-behind jacket, a belated lunch, and candy birthday cards

Don’t ask me what our children are dressing up as for Halloween. We have no idea. I’m pretty sure they want to be rare Pokemon characters who are not available in costume form, although I’ve also heard Minecraft characters mentioned. I’m also pretty sure I’m not going to be learning
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7 Quick Takes Friday: Toilet paper ghosts, marshmallow fun, lost teeth, silly surveys, homemade cards, and more

Halloween is Monday, and I am making toilet paper ghosts. Tell me I’m not the only one.I’ve really been enjoying all the Halloween decorations in our neighborhood, but these lights I saw at my friend’s house last night are just adorable.And we can’t wait to go trick-or-treating. Happy Halloween!
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7 Quick Takes…Saturday: My half-birthday, a mouse update (if you can call it that), Chinese New Year celebrations at home, at school, and beyond, a craft malfunction, and more

I celebrated my half-birthday this week. When I say I celebrated, I mean that it was, in fact, my half-birthday, not that there was a party of any sort. We rode in an elevator, which is sort of like a party for us.One of my boys gave me two half-hugs,
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The last dance as daddy’s little girl

Kimberly Hartman has been eagerly planning her June wedding for months now and after searching through typical father-daughter wedding songs, she and her parents decided on Heartland’s “I loved her first.” It is tradition for the father of the bride to dance with his daughter on her wedding day. This is the last dance that...
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Beyond the CR pages: Calvert Hall’s Thanksgiving food drive

In this week’s Catholic Review, you’ll see a brief item about Calvert Hall’s annual Thanksgiving food drive, which collected 13,000 pounds of food for a series of local outreaches. The classes from the all-boys Towson high school even turned it into a contest to see who could collect the most cans. Campus minister Marc Parisi...
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Movie Review: ‘Mirror Mirror’

Who's the fairest one of all? The answer may surprise you in "Mirror Mirror."
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