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Hospitality scares me.
You, too?
Did you grow up in a home where everything had to be magazine-perfect when guests were coming? And now, when after a soccer game, your husband turns to the …
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Elizabeth Foss
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10/7/15
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“Is it not enough,” she asked me earnestly, “to be a woman at home, caring for a family? Everyone around me has a job that enables her to contribute to her family financially. Even within the …
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Elizabeth Foss
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9/23/15
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3915 views
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1 comment
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There is the faintest hint of crispness in the dawn these days, just a little teaser that alludes to autumn’s approach. The seasons are shifting. A previously quick early-morning grocery run took …
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Elizabeth Foss
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9/9/15
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2718 views
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On a recent vacation to the beach, my youngest child did her very best to gather up every seashell on the shore. One after another, she’d bring them to me, marveling over their intricate beauty. …
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Elizabeth Foss
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8/26/15
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3126 views
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On a recent vacation to the beach, my youngest child did her very best to gather up every seashell on the shore. One after another, she’d bring them to me, marveling over their intricate beauty. …
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Elizabeth Foss
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8/21/15
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519 views
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When my boys were little, I watched a phenomenon play out so many times that I’m sure it’s an infallible truth: If they are playing and their father shouts from the sidelines, they hear him. Over …
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Elizabeth Foss
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7/28/15
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5350 views
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Sometimes — often, really — our children teach us our most important lessons. I think maybe that’s the way it’s supposed to be; the most important lessons and the hardest ones for us to …
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ELIZABETH FOSS
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7/1/15
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2440 views
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There are days (and nights, lots of nights) when mothers feel as if they are toiling in obscurity. Who sees the things that require all our time and attention? Who hears us begging a baby to go to …
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Elizabeth Foss
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6/10/15
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2597 views
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Humidity hangs heavy today and the temperature has crept toward 90; it’s undeniably feeling like summer in Virginia. As I sit with a calendar that has palpably shifted from the frenetic …
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Elizabeth Foss
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5/27/15
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3163 views
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1 comment
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It’s planting time. And growing time. And watering time. But, wait. First, it’s weeding time. Every year, I say I’m going to get after the weeds before it’s a big job, and every year, I …
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Elizabeth Foss
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5/13/15
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2036 views
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