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Weekend Wanderer: I Can’t Sleep
I haven’t slept in days. It started with our security alarm, triggered at one o’clock in the morning. The alarm system texted me — kind of creepy in and of itself — that the breach occurred at my back door. Um, OK. Terrifying. Like, scuba terrifying. Did it help that my horror movie podcast just…
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Are You Acting Like a Child? The Benefits of Embracing a Childlike State of Being
We often use the phrase “acting like a child” as an insult for adults who may be seemingly irresponsible or immature. However, in business we need to take risks and be able to adapt quickly to change, so as a business owner, it can be helpful to have childlike faith and embrace a childlike state…
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Weekend Wanderer: Ketchup, Hot Dogs, and ‘The Bear’
I’m bingeing The Bear. And I have eyeballs with nerves connected to my brain. So I’m somewhat bewitched by Jeremy Allen White. I can’t even talk about his Calvin Klein ad. Except to say the socks and sneakers at the end are no good. No good at all. A conversation between his character and another…
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Morrisville Couple Sells Pokémon Collection to Fund Home for Foster Teens
Morrisville resident Mel Kulenski, a dedicated social worker and foster parent, made the difficult decision to sell her cherished Pokémon collection to fund renovations for her inherited childhood home, writes Laura Hoover for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The sale fetched over $10,000, thanks to a rare, first-edition Charizard card. Mel, a Pokémon fan since the mid-1990s,…
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Weekend Wanderer: Where’s the Music?
So there I was, streaming Moonlighting in all its Bruce Willis glory. There was a scene in Moonlighting that, well — it didn’t change my life. Not exactly. But it holds great significance. Affected me. In one episode, a pre-China Beach Dana Delany hires the Blue Moon Detective Agency. It turns out — oops! —…
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Family Fun-Filled Weekend: Disney On Ice, Michaels Kids Club, Newtown Theatre, and More!
Local Kid-Friendly Activities To Enjoy From March 22 – 24 With Spring’s arrival, several area attractions are officially opening their doors for the 2024 season! New Jersey’s charming family theme park, Storybook Land, and Hellerick’s Family Farm’s high-flying Aerial Adventure Park in Doylestown will begin welcoming guests on Saturday. Diggerland USA, Six Flags Great Adventure,…
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Weekend Wanderer: No Turbulence for Me, Thanks
Twenty years ago, I was flying from Denver to Telluride, Colorado. It was a small plane. Buddy Holly planes, I call them. I could see straight into the cockpit. Flight attendants and beverage service would have been laughable on such a minuscule plane. Instead, the pilots conducted the safety briefing. “If you see us screaming,”…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Dangers of Nominated Films
I had two days until I left to visit my daughter’s college in Florida. It was time to prepare. As in, time to watch Alligator and Society of the Snow. I don’t know why I do these things. Alligator, I think, is self-explanatory. An oversized alligator terrorizes a Missouri town. Released in 1980, it stars…
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Weekend Wanderer: Heavy Is the Head That Watches ‘The Crown’
It’s time to put a period on The Dork Series. Or an apostrophe, am I right, guys? An apostrophe! Ahem. Anyway. I have spent most of the last month taking classes on the Tudor monarchy. One lecture was called — I’m not making this up — “Dressing like a Queen: Elizabeth I’s Wardrobe and Her…
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Phoenixville Man Unearths Rare Purple Pearl in Clam Dish at Delaware Restaurant
Scott Overland, who is vice president of the Phoenixville School Board, was dining out while on vacation in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware last week with his family when he discovered a purple pearl in his clam dish from the seafood restaurant Salt Air, writes Joseph Lamour, for Today Food. “I was the one mostly eating the…
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Weekend Wanderer: A New Book and My Secret Passion
I’m calling these last few weeks of columns The Dork Series. Apostrophe love. Bad dancing. If I told you about the history courses I’ve taken recently, you’d probably give me a wedgie and dunk my head in a toilet. So yeah. Let’s make it worse. A year ago, when Burt Bacharach died, I confessed my…
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The New York Post: Shaq to Jason Kelce — ‘Enjoy Your Family’
As Jason Kelce continues to mull his retirement, words of advice were recently passed down from Basketball Hall of Famer Shaq to Jason Kelce: Don’t make the “dumbass mistakes” that cost him his family, writes Justin Tasch for The New York Post. Shaquille O’Neil gave his warning while talking recently with Kelce on his podcast,…
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Philadelphia Metro Tops the Charts for Highest Cost of Living in Pennsylvania
While the average cost of living for a family of four in Pennsylvania comes in at $87,500, if you live in the Philadelphia metro area, you will need to make significantly more than that, writes Ashley Adams for The Keystone. The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator measured the income a family needs to have…
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WSJ: Why Eastern State Penitentiary Became a Popular Wedding Venue in Philadelphia
In 2021, Christina Spence and her husband Ricky Scalia eloped and got married at Eastern State Penitentiary and it had to do with the fact that Spence wanted to have a simple wedding, writes Joel Millman for The Wall Street Journal. “My cousin got married in a castle. We wanted to have a unique stress…
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Weekend Wanderer: I’m Here to Preserve the Apostrophe
It all started with an article in The Guardian. The headline read “Hampshire villagers bring street’s apostrophe catastrophe to a full stop.” I clicked on that article. Oh yes, I did. Because of all the ills in the world, of all the daily nuisances, my pet peeve is the absent or incorrectly used apostrophe. Now,…
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This Local Couple Has A 50-Plus Year Love Story, and It All Started With an Ad and a Computer
The concept of dating through the use of a computer didn’t really catch on for most of society until around the 1990s, but one Philadelphia couple can thank the advent of the computer for helping jumpstart their relationship in 1965. That year, Shelly Beaser (then Bronstein), from Broomall, was a sophomore and commuter student at…
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Weekend Wanderer: Will I Ever Be Cool?
I’ve been up to something on Sunday mornings. Besides, you know, bombarding you with words. It began two months ago. But its roots go back to Halloween. Specifically, Shyamaween. As a horror movie fan, I seized the opportunity to be under the same roof as M. Night Shyamalan. Wait. Sorry. I mean I seized the…
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Broomall Blue Lights Support Family After Sudden Death of 2-Year-Old
When Benny, a 2-year-old boy in Broomall, died suddenly, the community rallied around the family, draping itself in blue light over the past few days as a show of support. The ‘Blue for Benny’ movement has taken root in much of Broomall, involving homes and business, writes Chris O’Connell for Fox 29. Later this week,…
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