Family
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Weekend Wanderer: How Far Can a Marriage Bend?
There’s a fight in my house. It’s ugly, this fight. Insults slung. Parties insisting an opinion — an opinion — is wrong. Well, yes. I’ve slung insults and denigrated opinions. But it’s because everybody in my house is ridiculous. They say — they say Danish breakfast pastries are better than scones. Lunacy. That’s what that…
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Baby Bureau in Warminster Ensures Every Baby and Mother Receives What They Need from the Start
The Baby Bureau in Warminster is supporting Pennsylvania families as they embark on their journeys with their newest additions, providing everything they might need from the very beginning, writes Wakisha Bailey for CBS News Philadelphia. Laurieann Tebben, the executive director of The Baby Bureau, highlighted they provide items like diapers and wipes, to sleepers and…
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Weekend Wanderer: Let’s Take Off Our Pants
I have a best friend. Like any best friend, she has changed my life. Small ways. Big ways. In-between ways. One such change is recent. I’m not sure if it’s positive, but I love it all the same. It’s kind of like the time our other friend convinced me to buy that tight, low-cut shirt…
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See How Much You Need to Earn in Pennsylvania and Neighboring States to Be Considered Upper Class
Pennsylvania lands roughly in the middle based on how much income is required for a household to be considered upper class, writes Steve Charnock for MSN. Pennsylvania boasts strong economic diversity, with several sectors contributing to higher salaries, including finance, healthcare, and manufacturing. The upper class threshold in the Keystone State is $143,596, with approximately…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Scourge of Parallel Parking
Can we all agree parallel parking, um, sucks? It’s not that I can’t parallel park. Parallel parking is one of the few skills I will crow about in these pages. See, I went to grad school in North Philadelphia. My university had student parking. Of course it did. What it did not have was capacious…
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Weekend Wanderer: I Went to the Outdoor Show
“Do you want to go to the Outdoor Show?” This was my husband, who makes time every February to work a booth at the Great American Outdoor Show. OK. You clicked the link. And probably drew some conclusions. That’s fair. Because let me tell you something. I was drawing all sorts of conclusions wandering the…
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Weekend Wanderer: Take the Stairs
I remember, once, a cousin of my husband’s spent a semester studying in Europe. “That’s great!” her dad said when she told him. “Let’s go watch a movie.” It was Taken. I thought of this when my daughter texted from college one autumn evening. She was awarded a study abroad course in London. I had…
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Weekend Wanderer: My Turn to Fill the Tank
Let’s talk about cars. I know nothing about them. So I guess I’ll catch you guys next week. Bye. Yes. My car game is that bad. Worse, I don’t care how little I know about cars. I should care. I wish I cared. But I don’t. When I began driving, Indy showed me how to…
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Weekend Wanderer: It’s Up to You, New York
I’m tired of talking about Willie. But probably not as tired as you are of hearing about her. So let’s change the subject. There’s that weird weekend between Christmas and New Year’s. The holidays are over. But they’re not. This year, on that awkward weekend, I sort of went to New York City See, in…
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Weekend Wanderer: With Friends Like These …
As you might imagine, Willie’s friends — a cohort of fellow independent-living cronies — were aghast at Willie’s move to memory care. Even if it was just six days. The upgrade to assisted living did nothing to quell their alarm. In fact, a bevy of Willie-adjacent people had a few things to say on the…
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Pennsylvania Ranks Among Best States to Raise Family in 2025
Pennsylvania ranked third in the country among the best states to raise a family in 2025, according to a recently released report from ConsumerAffairs, writes Ashley Adams for The Keystone. Vermont ranked in first place, ahead of Maine in second. The report ranked all 50 states and Washington, D.C. based on five key metrics, including…
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Weekend Wanderer: Memory Care or Assisted Living?
So I walked Willie to memory care, a meandering journey through the independent living building to the joint assisted living/memory care building at the Temple of Doom. And she was … fine. No fight. No protests. That — that isn’t Willie. Willie’s a fighter. Willie loves nothing more than a good fight. Even when there’s…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Trek to Memory Care
So where were we? Oh yes. The Upper Moreland police found Willie standing on the corner of Byberry and Davisville Roads on a blustery night in early December. The police officer took Willie back to the Temple of Doom. That was when he called me. “Is she OK?” I asked. The officer said Willie was…
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Chance Meeting Brings Together West Chester Woman and Downingtown Man Who Only Had Eyes for Each Other
For Chester County natives Kelly Welch and Michael Regan, their love story was the right person, wrong time, but they managed to find their way back to each other to wed on May 14, 2022, at SS. Simon and Jude Parish in West Chester, writes Kellie Patrick Gates for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Welch, who is from…
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Weekend Wanderer: A Romance for the Golden Years
We’ll get to Willie’s move next week. We have to discuss Willie’s boyfriend. Yep. Willie has a boyfriend. I was visiting Willie one day. She complained about a fellow widow. This widow, she said, was not moving on. This widow needed a life. “Look at me,” Willie said. “I miss Indy. But I…
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Washington Post: Morgantown Casino Excursion Sparks Romance for Local Couple After 50 Years
Bob Wenrich and Fay Gable, a Lancaster County couple who divorced fifty years ago, have rekindled their romance and tied the knot again, writes Cathy Free for The Washington Post. The pair got married in 1951 when Gable was 16 and Wenrich was 21. The couple settled into a busy life in Lancaster County having…
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Phillies Catcher Garrett Stubbs Marries Evyn Murray in Los Cabos Wedding
Philadelphia Phillies catcher Garrett Stubbs recently exchanged vows with his longtime love Evyn Murray in a romantic wedding in Mexico, writes Ashlyn Robinette for People. The wedding took place at Solaz, a luxury Collection Resort in Los Cabos. “It was exactly what we envisioned from the beginning. A roller coaster of emotions,” Murray said. “At…
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Weekend Wanderer: Another Christmas to Remember
Around my house, the holidays tend to involve some Black Christmas-level drama. Indy went to Marion’s bar in Nepal six days before Christmas, two years ago. Let me tell you something. Nothing puts you in the Christmas spirit like planning a funeral. You know, the funeral home was decorated for Christmas. That was weird. People…
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