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Weekend Wanderer: A Movie Ruined My Marriage
Al Pacino has a memorable line in an unmemorable movie. It’s The Devil’s Advocate, and he tells Keanu Reeves his “stud” look is very, “Excuse me, ma’am. Did I leave my boots under your bed?” That quote is a perfect characterization of Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick. He is all charm and easy grin,…
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Main Line Mag Recommends Peddler’s Village to Newbies; Coverage Is Also a Resident Reminder to Return
Scottish poet Robert Burns’ translated quote — “And would some Power the small gift give us; To see ourselves as others see us!” — is wholly appropriate in light of a recent Main Line Tonight article. Author Tara Behan chronicles the multifaceted appeal of Peddler’s Village, providing an outsider’s view of one of the county’s…
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Jefferson Health – Abington Holds Its Way-More-Than Fair Fair, 109th Annual Cancer Patient Fundraiser
A dog and pony show is a somewhat pejorative term for an overblown, over-hyped event. A horse and pony show, however, is an altogether different animal. It’s a competition among beautiful equines, groomed to perfection, and evaluated under the professional eye of a team of breed experts. It’s also, referring to this weekend’s Jefferson Health…
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Weekend Wanderer: When Work Stresses You Out
I have a writer problem. It’s your problem too. I can’t focus. If I can’t focus, I can’t tell you a story. If I can’t tell you a story … well … the whole world just unravels, doesn’t it? I know exactly why I can’t focus. I have two problems – one I want to…
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Married in East Lansdowne, They Are PA’s Oldest Married Couple
Pennsylvania’s oldest married couple were married 80 years ago in East Lansdowne, writes Evan Brandt for the Daily Times. Chester and Martha Pish are both 99 and last week they celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary. According to state Rep. Joe Ciresi, (D-146), that makes them “the oldest married couple in Pennsylvania, maybe in the country.”…
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Weekend Wanderer: Is My Motion Sickness Really a Physical Issue or Just a Control Issue?
First of all, I’m alive. I made it home from Montana. At the moment, however, I would almost accept death. I disembarked from my plane 36 hours ago, but my stomach still roils like a bad morning after. I get sick in anything that moves. Cars, planes, boats – you name it. If it moves,…
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In Delaware County, Families Bond Together to Overcome Baby Formula Shortage
Delaware County families are banding together to help each other find baby formula during a nationwide shortage, writes Sarah Gantz for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The families have turned into scavengers, searching the internet and visiting stores miles away. When the treasured commodity is found, its location is shared with a Facebook group. Karah Weiser, a…
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Weekend Wanderer: How to Ruin Everything
Mother’s Day found me crying over deflated croissants and driving around with 52 Dickens’ Village houses in my car. Let’s start with the croissants. Their flagrant price all but guaranteed a delicious, flaky, French-inspired croissant. They waited for Mother’s Day brunch in my garage freezer next to the moose, deer, squirrel, and pheasant. I didn’t…
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Weekend Wanderer: I’m Afraid to Fly
I’m flying this week. I’m not afraid of flying. I actually love to fly. It feels cosmopolitan and cultured. And who doesn’t relish the inherent promise of exploring a new place? So I’m not afraid to fly. But I am terribly afraid to crash. Most of the time, I’m fine. But when I’m awake at…
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Baby in Womb “Flips Off” Pottstown Mom-To-Be During Ultrasound
Seeing your baby during an ultrasound is a new mom’s great joy, but this mom-to-be saw her baby doing something unexpected, reports Ben Cost for the New York Post. The fetus is appearing to actually “give the finger” in the womb during the ultrasound. “I could possibly have the sweariest baby ever if she’s doing…
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Weekend Wanderer: Learning a Second Language
My husband was on an excursion in the Canadian wilderness. Trips like that reduce communication routes to satellite phone, for contacting the trip outfitter, and a GPS device he uses to text me or to alert emergency rescuers of bear attacks. When the satellite phone died, I became the sole link to civilization. An urgent…
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Weekend Wanderer: Greeting 48 Like It’s 14
It’s my birthday. Don’t wish me well. I’m clinging to my 40s like Chrissy Watkins clung to that buoy in Jaws. I’m sure some women anticipate their fifties with all the joy of a child awaiting Santa on Christmas Eve. I’m just not one of them. I’m more like Barbra in Night of the Living…
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Weekend Wanderer: Why Am I the One Always Going Outside?
The temperature was a dusty 97 degrees. I was parked in a remote parking lot of Yellowstone National Park. Two dark figures ambled on the horizon. They were the only things moving on the flat, windless plain. “Are those specks them?” my mother-in-law asked. She leaned forward beside me, squinting as she tried to focus…
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Former Dairy Barn on Chester Springs Property — Once Home to Owen J. Roberts — Boldly Reimagined
In 2007, Erik Kolar bought the former residence of Owen J. Roberts, the former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, in Chester Springs to transform it into a home for his family to be together, writes Bill Donahue for Suburban Life Magazine. Kolar, the CEO of Patriot Equities in Wayne, bought the property, comprised of a…
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Weekend Wanderer: Am I One of The Golden Girls?
My dad and I sat in his doctor’s waiting room for three hours last Thursday. Three hours. Even without the pandemic, doctors’ waiting rooms were flirting with extinction. But concierge services haven’t quite made it to suburban Pennsylvania healthcare. So we waited for three hours. We sat as people came and went like we were…
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Body at Ridley Marina Identified as James Amabile, Missing Since 2003
The Delaware County Medical Examiner’s Office has determined that the body found in a submerged SUV in Darby Creek was identified through dental records as James Amabile, who disappeared in 2003, according to a release from Delaware County. Amabile 38, had been on his way to a babysitter’s house Dec. 4, 2003 to pick up…
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Bright Idea to Adopt Year-Long Daylight Saving Time Was Tried Before, With Dangerous Results
With the U.S. Senate passage of the Sunshine Protection Act, efforts may again be underway to permanently orient the U.S. to Daylight Saving Time. But JD Mullane, in the Bucks County Courier Times, recalls the idea’s prior attempt. In December 1973, the biggest kitchen table issue was the cost of energy. The Nixon Administration nationalized…
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Weekend Wanderer: Dressed for Success — with Rope and Ribbon
I didn’t want to speak with a stranger in my gynecologist’s waiting room. But adventure follows me wherever I go. So yes. I spoke with a stranger in my gynecologist’s waiting room. I was minding my own business. I really was. I sat down next to a charging station. I plugged in my phone. I…
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