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Jenkintown Couple Recounts Pitch-Perfect Proposal at Phillies Tailgate Party
As the Phillies are batting their way to the National League Championship Series, a Jenkintown couple is taking the time reminisce on how their favorite team served as a backdrop for their love story. It was 2019 and Danielle DiCacco was attending a tailgate party at Citizens Bank Park, she tells Beatrice Forman of…
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Weekend Wanderer: I Spent the Day in Baltimore. I Have No Idea What I Did While I Was There
After spending two Fridays straightening out her finances, I had a very grateful Willie on my hands. Willie’s finances — how do I put this? Well, recently, I watched all of The Exorcist sequels. I had to, guys. My horror podcast is working its way through The Exorcist films. To prepare for the new Exorcist…
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Weekend Wanderer: Do I Want to Live Somewhere Rural?
Something disturbing happened to me last week. Wait. That’s not accurate. I did something disturbing last week. Yes. That’s better. I did something disturbing. Something I don’t understand. You see — well — you guys know my husband’s family has a cabin. And you know how I feel about that cabin. It’s not that I…
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Weekend Wanderer: Spending a Week with Thailand
I promise this isn’t another column about scuba. But. Given my aquatic adventures of late, I am obsessed with two cinematic genres. The first is scuba and scuba-adjacent horror movies. “Should you be watching this?” my husband sighed as I watched Blake Lively’s battle for survival against a shark oblivious to any food that wasn’t…
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Weekend Wanderer: Getting on a Parent’s Bad Side
I’ve entered a new quadrant of the Willie Universe. The likelihood that someone I know could wind up living in the apartment next to Willie has got to be slim, right? But the likelihood this situation could ruin my life is a guarantee. It all starts with my daughter. Wasn’t I just saying last week…
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After Losing Her Brother to Suicide, Meridian Bank’s Lisa Carmoli Is an Advocate and Pillar of Meridian Community
September is National Suicide Prevention Month. As a suicide loss survivor, Lisa Carmoli, an Executive Assistant at Meridian Bank, works to share her family’s story of grief, love, and extreme support. In May 2019, Carmoli experienced a devastating loss after her brother, Mike, died by suicide. Since his passing, she has become a prevention advocate…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Cold Shower Trend Became More Than a Trend
I think having kids made my life better. Wait. Do I? Yeah. Yes. I do. Made my life better, made me a better person. Yeah. Sure. Take this summer. I drove my kids to New Jersey on 31 separate days this summer. One day, I drove to New Jersey twice — two entirely different directions. …
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Norristown’s Elmwood Park Zoo Hosts Outdoor Buffet and Giraffe Feeding this Fall
Norristown’s Elmwood Park Zoo is bringing family-friendly events to great heights. “Breakfast with Giraffes” allows adults and kids the opportunity to get up close and personal with these beloved creatures, writes Justin Heinze for The Norristown Patch. Attendees enter a special station to feed the giraffes. They can enjoy breakfast before the feeding for…
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Folds of Honor Building Match Fund for 9/11 Radio-thon to Benefit Military Families
Folds of Honor military families will be benefiting from the 14th Annual AM790 WAEB Radio-thon, which will be held the week of Sept. 11. Hosted by Bobby Gunther Walsh and Gene Dickinson from 7 AM – 10 AM from Sept. 6 – 11, this will be the fourth time that the Folds of Honor and…
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Weekend Wanderer: Your Day Is Not Your Own. Get Used to It
Is it possible to say I got Willied without it sounding sordid? Because there was really nothing sordid about it. It was, however, a typical day in the Willie Universe. It started when Willie told me she needed to make a Staples run. Someone would have to take her. Someone. Meaning me. Instead, I suggested…
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Weekend Wanderer: Don’t Make Me Scuba Dive, The Conclusion
I think scuba is a metaphor for life. Also, I think scuba doesn’t really exist. Like the idea that humanity is just a simulation, so too, I feel, is scuba. See, every lesson in scuba settles on one edict — slow, focused breathing powers your dive. Focused breathing keeps divers neutrally buoyant — the desired…
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Drop in Popularity of Her Name Makes Philadelphia Teen a Rare Young Members of L.I.N.D.A. Club
Due to a huge drop in the use of the once mega-popular name, seventeen-year-old Linda Jack of Philadelphia is one of the rare young members of the L.I.N.D.A. Club, writes Jon Kamp for The Wall Street Journal. However, for the Philadelphia teen, the rarity of her name is an asset. “I’ve never met someone with…
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Weekend Wanderer: My Daughter Is Applying to College, and I’m Not OK
I was driving down Street Road in Bucks County recently when I saw — Sorry. I have to take a deep breath or this story will be peppered with four-letter words. And one seven-letter word. And two eight-letter words. I saw a kid — a teenager — sitting in the open window of a car…
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Weekend Wanderer: Road-Trip Car Games … to Play by Yourself
So there I was, driving eight hours to drop off my kid at camp. Then driving eight hours home by myself. Three days later, I’d embark on that same trip in reverse — eight hours alone in the car, then eight hours with my daughter on the drive home from camp. The eight-hour drive didn’t…
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Weekend Wanderer: I Left My Kid at Camp
So my kid is at sleepaway camp. Yep. I drove through four states to leave my kid with strangers for five days. Are you guys having trouble breathing? Because I’m having trouble breathing. Strangers! I left my kid with strangers! I thought leaving my dog in a kennel was hard. But this? This is a…
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Ambler Teachers Speak on the Highs and Lows of their Parenting Journey
Two Ambler teachers are reaping the joys of parenthood. Connie and Matt Hoag grew up a block away from each other, but it wasn’t until they both worked at the YMCA in 2012 that they connected, writes Anndee Hochman for The Philadelphia Inquirer. They married in 2017, and by 2020 the couple had their…
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Weekend Wanderer: I Fell. Is This the Beginning of the End?
I turned the lock on the storm door. You know the one — it won’t engage without a forceful inward jerk, an even more forceful twist of the lock, and about seven expletives. I turn this lock often in the evening. I have an old beagle with an old prostate who feels the best time…
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Weekend Wanderer: Indiana Jones, by Way of Maryland
What do the new Indiana Jones movie, my spiraling refrigerator, and Indy’s Maryland property have in common? The answer is a story and then some. I would start at the beginning, but I don’t know where that is, exactly. It might start in the ’50s, when Indy bought the Maryland property. It might start with…
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