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Weekend Wanderer: Cleaning Led to a Terrible Discovery
I made a gruesome discovery last week. It was Friday. The day yawned beautifully before me. Nothing hinted at the evil lurking in the hours to come. Rather, it was — to quote Bill Withers — a lovely day. Temperate. Gentle breezes. Puffy clouds floating through the sky. And I was alone. I am finding…
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Weekend Wanderer: My Family Can’t Get Their Holidays Straight
You might remember Thanksgiving, when my aunt had designs on attending dinner at my brother’s house. A dinner my brother wasn’t hosting as he planned on having dinner with our parents. They just didn’t know he planned on having dinner with them. It was like a Thanksgiving surprise party. I was the only one who…
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Weekend Wanderer: Becoming an Expert in Selling Real Estate
In the 1950s, Indy bought a property in Maryland. Indy never built anything on the property. While the rest of the neighborhood is dotted with homes, Indy’s land is dotted with feral cats and listing trees. Two years ago, Indy and Willie tasked me with selling the property, which we’ll call Westeros. Because selling it…
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SageLife Delivers Results for Individuals with Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders
According to the Parkinson’s Foundation, nearly one million people in the U.S. are living with Parkinson’s disease (PD), and that number is expected to rise to 1.2 million by the year 2030. PD is the second-most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s, with nearly 90,000 people diagnosed each year in the U.S. Incredibly, this is up…
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Jaworski’s Freedom Day Golf Tournament Honors Military and First Responder Families
Folds of Honor will be hosting a mass golf outing to honor members of the military, first responders, and their families. On July 3, more than 750 golfers of all skill levels will participate in playing 117 holes of exceptional golf across six Ron Jaworski Golfproperties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey to help the families…
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Weekend Wanderer: What Does It Take to Raise a Kid?
If you read this column with any regularity, you may ask yourself how, exactly, one raises an adult fearful of reptiles and swimming over sunken ships. Well, you surround her, as a child, with a few good men. I don’t mean Marines, although 50 percent of the men I’m about to discuss are Marines. What…
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Rube Goldberg Competition Engages SageLife Residents in STEM
SageLife — which has senior living communities in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Massachusetts — is engaging its residents with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) activities. Residents across SageLife communities recently participated in a unique competition in which the challenge was building Rube Goldberg machines out of everyday household items. Named after the American cartoonist, a…
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Life Has Been Good to This Comfortable Couple of 50 Years
Kathy and Jim met when Kathy’s friend abandoned her at a 1970 engagement party in Broomall full of strangers. Jim offered her a ride home. That led to a first date and, eventually, marriage, writes Kellie Patrick Gates for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Both came from large Catholic families. In fact, they married at the chapel…
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Weekend Wanderer: When Your Teen Leaves the Nest
Spring break has come and gone, and so has my daughter’s childhood. Wow. That’s melodramatic. True, but melodramatic. Let’s start with the driver’s license. She got it two weeks ago. And my nerves are fizzing like a Fourth of July sparkler. Any parent with a licensed teen has felt this way — that visceral fear…
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Weekend Wanderer: Panic at the Campground
A few years ago, my husband joined an organization whose mission is public land protection. In short order, he joined the Pennsylvania chapter’s public land protection board. He asked for my blessing before doing so. Joining the public land protection board meant I would shoulder more of the workload at home. How could I say…
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Echo Lake Retirement Community in Malvern Announces New Leadership
Echo Lake, a SageLife senior care community in Malvern, has appointed Lee Gillis, General Manager, and Charlie Hearn, Dining Director, to its leadership team. Gillis, who possesses a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Neumann University, is a skilled senior living executive with nearly 35 years of experience. Prior to Echo Lake, she served as…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Ocean’s Depth to the Mountain’s Peak
Now that I’m two-thirds of the way through the horror of scuba certification, it is time for me to tackle another challenge. Munro bagging. I promise I’m not making up words. Munro bagging is a real thing. Munros are what Scots call their mountains. Munro bagging is the endeavor to summit all 200-plus Munros in…
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Weekend Wanderer: Colliding Fears and Yogic Breathing
There is something worse than using a portable toilet because you’re camping. It’s using a portable toilet in a scuba suit because you’re at an outdoor pool in March. Preventing a scuba suit from dangling in the mystery moisture of a portable toilet’s floor is a scuba skill I failed to anticipate. It was snowing…
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Jason Kelce’s Work Is Never Done, Even With a New Daughter at Home
Philadelphia Eagles Center Jason Kelce is expressing some humorous remorse at having to leave his wife, Kylie, and new daughter Bennett just four days after Kylie delivered, as well as miss his daughter Elliotte’s birthday, writes Angela Andalor for People Magazine. The 35-year-old had to go to the NFL Combine to conduct interviews for his…
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Delaware County’s Got It’s Irish Up but Not as Much as Lackawanna
With St. Patrick’s Day nearly upon us, it seems a good time to check out just what percentage of folks in Delaware County and the region can claim Irish ancestry, writes Max Bennett for patch.com. Many Americans say they’re Irish, but in the city of Philadelphia, there aren’t as many people with an authentic Irish…
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Weekend Wanderer: Don’t Make Me Scuba Dive, Part Two
You may remember I’m certifying in open-water scuba diving. You may also remember I’m afraid of swimming over large objects, like whales or a shipwreck. I’m afraid of a lot of things. But this is my most absurd fear. Good news on that front, though. It turns out wreck diving is an entirely different scuba…
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Peddler’s Village to Host Several Upcoming Spring Events
Peddler’s Village, a countryside shopping, dining, lodging, and family entertainment destination in the heart of historic Bucks County that is widely recognized for its popular festivals and events, will be hosting several family-friendly events in March and April. The fourth annual PEEPS® in the Village competition and display, which will this year feature more than 100 marshmallow…
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Teenager Raises Funds to Fight Cancer While Waiting for Own Heart Transplant
Matthew Hauser, a 16-year-old Malvern resident, is not letting his own struggle with health prevent him from continuing to raise funds to fight cancer, writes Matteo Iadonisi for 6ABC. Hauser is currently hoping to get a lifesaving call that will tell him there is a heart available for him. “When I was two and a…
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