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Happy 303 Day! A love story about Comrade Brewing Co.

Happy 303 Day! Here is a Colorado love story about my favorite microbrewery. Colorado has over 100 microbreweries churning out amazing beer! Our absolute favorite small brewery is Comrade Brewing Company, where you can find my husband Paul almost every Friday. And what's not to love? It's located in an old auto repair shop with enormous overhead doors which raise up to let the Colorado sunshine and fresh air pour right in. Paul is obsessed with …

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Volunteering with Kids: Girl Scouts Help the Homeless

Like many parents living in the suburbs, I often wonder if I'm doing enough to push my kids out of their middle class bubble of Netflix, Capri Suns and endless clementines. I grew up living a mostly idyllic childhood in a two-parent family where we never went hungry or wore last year's coat that was too small. My husband, on the other hand, was raised by a single mom in a sketchy part of Los Angeles, where getting their lights shut off was a …

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Distracted by social media, I almost lost my son.

Something awful happened at the tail end of our California vacation last June. A near-miss so traumatizing that it's taken me six months to write about it. As the year is winding down, I'm looking back on all the fun stuff we did as a family, and this one memory is like a sharp little pain in the corner of my mind. It's my hope that sharing it now will help me move forward and let go of some of the guilt. Last June, my family took a road trip …

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