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Erika Petrelli

Flying

My daughter, who will turn seven in June, just learned to ride her bike without training wheels last week.

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What's Important?

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Be Yourself

Today's post features a guest blogger, my daughter Marlowe.  She is six years old and in first grade.  Here is what she'd like to say:

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Mom

For Mother's Day, Erika reflects on the multitude of meanings a three-letter word can have: Mom

      Mother’s Day is this weekend, so I’d like to offer a moment of thanks and celebration for my mom,...

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Puzzles

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Preparation

A combination of layovers and a tight schedule recently led me to be on four planes in 24 hours. It is spring, and it is the Midwest, so weather is frequently a factor, and I was fascinated to...

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Unlikely

Jordan Spieth won the Masters golf tournament on Sunday. It was an unlikely feat. Unlikely in that he tied the record for the best winning score—18 under par, matched only by Tiger Woods in 1997....

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Do I Contradict Myself?

As per always, I was walking around the house the other day lamenting the absolute state of disaster that is the garage, the laundry room, the furnace room, the bedroom, the kitchen sink, the hall...

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Freedom

I’ve been thinking a lot about freedom, and what freedom really means, since Indiana passed a Religious Freedom Restoration Act: signed into law by Governor Mike Pence last Thursday, making pretty...

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The Beauty of Living and the Beauty of Dying

A woman I didn’t know died last weekend and I feel so, so sad about it.