Category: Essay
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Leaned into Lent; Leaning into Holy Week
So, we are in the final countdown. Finish today and Monday, make it through “circus day” (no, really, a circus is coming to my school) on Tuesday, and half-day on Wednesday…and then, EASTER BREAK. As a full-time teacher, I am 100% qualified to tell you who looks forward to school breaks more, students or teachers:…
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Language Learned, Passport Packed
Sunday, March 17, 2019: This morning, the Second Sunday in Lent, Fr. Gabriel, our parochial vicar, began his homily at 10:30 Mass with, “How is your Lent going?” For the first time in a very long time, I felt as though I was fully prepared to say, “Good!” For a few weeks before Ash Wednesday,…
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Writing through Lent: a Spiritual Exercise
Dear friends and followers, today is Ash Wednesday, and for Christians, the beginning of Lent. For these forty days of Lent, I will try to focus my writings and thoughts on more spiritual things, helping me to center myself on these three things: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. For so long, Catholics were asked to give…
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Just Say Cheese!
For two years I lived in Belgium, where supposedly there is a different cheese for every day of the year. Just a few blocks from my house on Avenue de Versailles was my favorite store, Fromagerie Saint-Michel, and during those two years, I was a frequent customer. The ladies behind the counter were so helpful…
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Baltimore’s Child Magazine
Please check out my article with this popular regional parenting magazine! Book It! Stuck at Home? Take a Literary Staycation! How to End the School Year on a High Note!
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Check it out!
Check out this month’s Washington Family Magazine for my freelance work in their August issue: Armchair Traveler: Books That Let You Travel the World (Without Leaving Home) Flying to Infinity and Beyond: Meet the 11-Year-Old Boy who Became an Instant Indoor Skydiving Star
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Check it out!
To read my articles published in Washington Family Magazine‘s July issue, please click on the link! Can’t Travel? Take a Literary Staycation!
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Check it out!
Check out this month’s Washington Family Magazine for my freelance work in their June “Father’s Day” issue: “Father of Three, Father to Many More”, a profile on University of Maryland Men’s Basketball Coach Mark Turgeon. “Squash the Summer Slump”, an article aimed at helping parents prevent their children from losing ground over the summer break…
Michelle Blanchard Ardillo 