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Saturday Night Live is doing well and here’s why

April 16, 2017April 16, 2017 Heather Schlessman

“We don’t do anything that isn’t for good reasons. The serial killer did that for good reasons, to serve life.

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Racism: Can we be the home of the brave once again?

July 10, 2016July 10, 2016 Heather Schlessman

Like many other people today I am angry and fed up. In the last 48 hours we have seen videos

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Parenting: Children can learn to make good choices

February 9, 2016February 9, 2016 Heather Schlessman

This week I saw some examples of parents who didn’t appear to understand that there was another choice to parenting

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Life has possibilities so be open

January 28, 2016January 28, 2016 Heather Schlessman

Setting intentions isn’t a popular thing to do anymore. To many it sounds like wishing on a star. You envision

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Fear doesn’t have to control our lives

July 28, 2015July 28, 2015 Heather Schlessman

Like many of us, my goal in life is to be happier. This is so difficult when I read the

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Children and manners: Teach them well

July 23, 2015July 22, 2015 Heather Schlessman

When children come to see me for a checkup I give them a book. It’s part of a program our

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Relationships: What we want

July 15, 2015 Heather Schlessman

Our family is in the process of moving from one house to another. I’ve counted, and we have moved 13

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Child vaccinations: Intentions are important

July 8, 2015July 7, 2015 Heather Schlessman

Photo above: A child receiving a typhoid vaccine in the 1950’s. (Wikipedia) Recently I had an experience while working with

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Marriage Equality: Compromise is wrong approach

July 1, 2015July 1, 2015 Heather Schlessman

The definition of  a compromise is “…a way of reaching agreement in which each person or group gives up something that was

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Toddlers: Peace in the house

June 28, 2015 Heather Schlessman

I recently saw in my Facebook feed a picture of a 2 1/2 -year-old child laying on a bathroom floor

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U.S. National Debt

The current U.S. national debt:
$36,595,101,611,079

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