Category: Writing
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The Sex Talk: It Starts with Self-Knowledge, Trust and Intimacy
“Are there any cute girls in your classes?” He flushes deep pink and scrunches up his nose and mouth at me. He is 11. Sixth grade began two days ago. “What?” I say. “I just asked if you’d seen any cute girls at school.” He’s been fiddling with something plastic…
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Free-Range Parenting: Knowing When to Let Go
I asked our 9-year-old son if he thought he and his 6-year-old brother were old enough to walk the mile between our home and the neighborhood community pool without me or Mom. He shook his head “no” before I finished the question. “Maybe in one more year,” he said. “But…
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Broken Places
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” – A Farewell to Arms We are broken in unseen places. We are broken by divorce. We are broken when we lose a dream career because of a poor economy. We are broken by a heart attack.…
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Swing, Fail, Swing Again
We played ball out back on a makeshift miniature diamond I mowed into the high, early summer St. Augustine grass. The 8-year-old stepped to the foam-rubber home plate, batting lefty, knees bent just so, arms high but relaxed, head cocked toward the pitcher — me. I wound up and tossed the…
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Alone Time at Disney Does Parents a World of Good
Our boys are not Disney deprived. This is the first thing I would like you to understand. Our family splurged on Walt Disney World seasonal passes last year, and our Year of Disney was a triumph. We love spending time as a family at all four Central Florida parks. We look forward…
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101 Things We Loved About Walt Disney World in 2013
The Year of Disney technically has not ended for our family. Our Walt Disney World seasonal passes are good until early February, and we will make good use of them between now and then. But as we approach the end of 2013, a look back at our still-fresh Disney memories…
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The Year of Disney: ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex
We’ll take our family’s Year of Disney to a new level Sunday when we report to the Boardwalk Inn for the start of a three-day media event connected with the ongoing Disney Sports Festival at Walt Disney World. Specifically, the event is designed to shed light on activities, amenities and…
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Let’s Talk About God
“Every mythology, every religion, is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.” – Joseph Campbell, the Power of Myth Our first summer in Florida, I was 13 years old and wheelchair-bound after corrective surgery on both feet. My parents sent my brother…
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Are Angels Real?
“Dad, are angels real?” Not what I expected to hear tonight as I tossed supper onto the stove. I waited a beat, turned toward the kitchen table. “Why do you ask?” “Because I don’t know.” Fair enough. But I wasn’t quite ready to give him my answer. So … “Well,…
Carter Gaddis, Writer & Editor 
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