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by Sheila Collins | Feb 28, 2012 | Personal Stories, Rituals

My parents were in a “mixed marriage,” meaning in their case, my mother was an Irish Catholic and my father was a “non-catholic.” Dad didn’t go to any church, though he paid to send his six children to catholic schools, as he’d promised when he married mother in the...

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by Sheila Collins | Feb 22, 2012 | Art & Life, Personal Stories, Technology, Writing

One of the games we play in my writer’s group is to challenge one another to write a response to a single word using only 100 words. It’s a discipline much needed in these days of sound bites, blogs, and tweets. Here’s my 100 word response to this...

Who Speaks for Thee?

by Sheila Collins | Feb 18, 2012 | Personal Stories, Women, Girls & the Feminine

There I was, talking back to the television again. Waving my hands and raising my voice as though I could get the newscaster’s attention. My husband walked into the room and I attempted to enlist him in my incredulous reaction. “Look at this. It’s a roomful of men,...

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by Sheila Collins | Feb 12, 2012 | Health, Personal Stories, Women, Girls & the Feminine

All the brouhaha over contraceptives in the national news lately took me back to the middle of the last century, before science had any tried and truly reliable safe methods of birth control. In those days the choices were; calculate and abstain, or take your chances....

Gimmie a BLT! Hold the Bacon, Hold the Mayo, Hold the Bread!

by Sheila Collins | Feb 5, 2012 | Health, Personal Stories

I’ve always been a believer that food is first of all, the best medicine. But I find it hard to keep up with what science and the food industry is telling and selling on any given day. This morning, my husband brought home a box of gluten-free brownie mix he picked up...

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