Family
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Having Tough Conversations with Your Kids About the News
There is so much information constantly flowing into families’ lives about the state of the world, with daily news headlines that have the potential to create distress. Children hear about what’s going on in the world through social media, friends, or adult conversations. But news headlines aren’t always about news; they’re often about what will get…
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Weekend Wanderer: That Mess Is Not Mine
I came home from visiting my oldest at college to find my youngest — home alone for days — had cleaned the dishwasher filter. I was gobsmacked. How did he know the dishwasher even has a filter to clean? I mean, sure. I regularly tell him to scrape his dishes so the filter doesn’t get clogged with macaroni noodles. That it’s a gross job…
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Couple Looking to Buy Home Ends Up Owning Whole Town in Pennsylvania
When Cleveland couple Saji Daniel and Shannon McGauley got an invitation in October 2020 from their neighbor, Dr. Lou Keppler, to visit Foxburg, they thought it would just be a nice daily escape from the city. Katherine Clarke, in The Wall Street Journal, chronicled how it led to a real-estate buying spree. The couple did…
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Elevated Garden Party Wedding Held at Holicong’s Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm
The day may have begun with rain, but Danielle Toy and Scott Shields still got the outdoor elevated garden party wedding they dreamed of at the Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm in Holicong, writes Emily Goulet for Philadelphia Magazine. “The rain paused just in time for our first look and portraits outside, and then the…
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Weekend Wanderer: Elegy for Sea Moss
I am not a social media trend follower. I am, however, a follower of celebrity gossip. I can remember my grandmother dishing with me about celebrities when I was a kid. One evening, my grandmother and I sat down to an episode of Falcon Crest. “Jane Wyman,” my grandmother said, “used to be married to…
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Levittown Sister’s Love Keeps Her Half-Siblings Out of Foster Care
Taylor Bowers, a Levittown resident, stepped up in her family’s time of need when her four half-siblings were going to be put into foster care, writes Tom Moore for the Bucks County Courier Times. In April of 2017, the Department of Human Services arrived for her 13-, 12-, 9- and 7-year-old siblings in Northeast Philadelphia…
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This Philadelphia 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: That’s Not My Stuff
Years before I moved Willie into assisted living, I helped Indy and Willie pack up their house for the move to the Temple of Doom. Packing up a two-story, four-bedroom house inhabited by, at times, as many as seven people over 50 years is daunting if I’m generous, impossible if I’m not. Willie and I agreed our best course of…
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Weekend Wanderer: I’m in a Gerard Butler Hole
It started innocently enough. One day, late in 2024, I was surfing my streamers for something to watch. I wanted something new, something I could follow with, say, 82 percent of my attention — yet never miss a beat. A thriller, maybe, or something with explosions. Netflix suggested London Has Fallen. Well, I’d seen Olympus Has Fallen. And I do love London. …
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Amsterdam Couple Reimagines Wedding as Intimate Dinner Party in Doylestown
Leen Sadder and Ryan Murphy, who live in Amsterdam, elevated their wedding at Doylestown’s Aldie Mansion into an intimate, sophisticated dinner-party experience, writes Emily Goulet for Philadelphia Magazine. Having met in Istanbul, the couple organized the entire celebration from their Amsterdam home, drawing on their design expertise and a team of vendors to create a…
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Weekend Wanderer: A Contest with No Winner
My physical therapy orders indicated I had a Colles fracture. So I Googled it. Fracture of the wrist, usually from falling on an outstretched hand. You don’t say. Colles fractures, my Google search said, can take three months to a year to heal. Um, what? Three months? To a year? Each website I clicked through made the same prediction. They also said…
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Chalfont Family Raises Awareness About a Rare Syndrome Affecting Their Son
A family from Chalfont is working to raise awareness about a rare syndrome affecting their son, which has left his face paralyzed, writes Stephanie Stahl for CBS News Philadelphia. Jackson Roberts is a brave four-year-old who was diagnosed with Moebius syndrome, which affects the nerves in the face. “It’s a neurological disorder. It’s the paralysis of the face,” said his…
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Weekend Wanderer: Do I Exist?
I remember how disturbed I felt reading Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The eponymous characters felt so untethered. With no real idea of why they were in Hamlet’s story, or how they came to be there, the question of their existence shifted the ground beneath my feet. Yeah. I am now Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Oh my…
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Weekend Wanderer: Is That Where the Antlers Go?
If you’ve been with me for a minute or two, you’ll know my husband is quite outdoorsy. And that I am not. I don’t know how, but it works. Maybe because he’s been in the woods for a week and I’ve happily watched Robocop for and all of Presumed Innocent. Robocop is the ’80s version, not the 2014 version. And Presumed Innocent is the 2024 version, not the ’90s version. The ’90s version is better. …
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Weekend Wanderer: I Watched “A Man on the Inside”
“I need you to watch A Man on the Inside,” my best friend texted me. “I feel like it’s Willie.” Now, I take any recommendation she sends me. She did, after all, turn me on to the idea of discarding my pants once I’m home for the day. No, I still haven’t gone entirely pants-free. But I am in leggings and a cuddly shirt by about…
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Weekend Wanderer: I’m Filthy
We agreed we’d talk about showering with a broken arm. Well, we agreed I’d talk, you’d read. Yes, we did. Let’s just get something — as Aaron Sorkin might say — out on the step for the cat to lick up. I shower twice a day. Yes, I know that’s bad for your skin and blah, blah, blah. This is just the way it is. …
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Weekend Wanderer: Two Christmases
Like most of us, I assume, I sometimes snuck into bed with my parents as a kid, after a nightmare or ghost story I couldn’t shake. I also had a tendency to sleepwalk right out the back door. But that’s a different story. I’d curl up, toasty and safe in my parents’ unwitting, dormant embrace. Eventually, Willie would awaken, or Indy would. They’d scoop me up,…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Rules of a Broken Arm
There is so much wisdom to be gained from a broken arm. Refrain from breaking your arm chief among that wisdom. I’m going to impart some of that wisdom to you, a spin on the grandmotherly adage to always wear clean underwear. We’ll take it on a timeline because you really have to get crackin’ if you’re planning on breaking your arm there, my friend. …
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