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PEACE GARDEN MAMA writing wednesdays: it all started here on peace garden mama!
Well, I have to thank you all for your comments on the post I wrote a while ago on Bieber Fever. That post turned into the inspiration for my most recent Forum column. So, some of this might ring fa...
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Living Faith: Marks of faith challenge the believer, others 
“You are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Each year I hear these words recited as an ashen cross is placed upon my forehead.
By Roxane Salonen , February 15, 2013
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Parenting Perspectives: Kids rejoice, mom shudders at Snow Day
On Monday, the kids were treated to a good old-fashioned Snow Day – the kind of day when the weather turns everything upside-down.
I can’t help but think of Snow Days past, like the one in college that saved me from failing that certain music-theory test.
By Roxane Salonen , February 11, 2013
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Living Faith: DC trip stirs faith, pride in our youth
Last week brought a theme of 50 into my life: 50 hours traveling on a bus with 50 teens and adults, and approximately 50 city blocks by foot around our final destination of Washington, D.C.
By Roxane Salonen , February 01, 2013
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Living faith: Dad’s passing stirs memories, deeper faith
When our mother called urging my sister and me to come as soon as possible to the hospital where my dad had been for more than a month, we both paused in our respective places.
By Roxane Salonen , January 25, 2013
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Living Faith: Contemplating my word for 2013: joy
It starts sometime between November and December – the ruminating over our word of the year.
“Have you thought of yours yet?” she asks.
“Getting closer, but I haven’t pegged it quite yet,” I reply.
By Roxane Salonen , January 18, 2013
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A holiday diversion: my father’s illness
Every so often, a family experiences a curveball during the holidays. This year, it was our turn.
By Roxane Salonen , January 11, 2013
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Living faith: Ready to share joys, challenges of faith journey
On New Year’s Day 2008, The Forum’s Tuesday “Parenting Perspectives” launched with my column as the first to be featured. In it, I shared thoughts on combatting depression in a way I hoped would uplift readers.
By Roxane Salonen , January 04, 2013
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Salonen: Loser Mama considers her affliction
I’m just going to come out and say this, painful as it is.
I’m a big loser. I may even be the biggest loser mother around.
Don’t say I’d lose my head if it wasn’t attached, because some days I wonder if it is.
June 11, 2012
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Salonen: Ritual eases moms into summer
The school year has ended; the lazy days of summer have arrived.
Parents everywhere are collectively doing a happy dance over the reprieve from sorting endless piles of finished homework, early morning sibling scuffles and tantrums over missing backpacks just seconds before van takeoff.
May 24, 2012
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Parenting Perspectives: May a month for mothers
Ah, May, that lovely month that allows us mothers to paint our toenails, kick up our heels, order a glass of iced tea with lemon and curl up with a favorite novel, all guilt-free.
Wait – not so much, you say?
April 30, 2012
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SheSay's 'Favorite Things': Salonen reveals favorite hide-outs
In my earliest years as a mother, the bathroom or garage oftentimes were the only places I could find momentary rest in the midst of a hectic, diaper-proliferated day.
March 25, 2012
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Salonen: Lenten ashes a reminder of life of faith
Each year at the start of Lent, I’m forced to confront in a very public and visible way the sacrifices inherent in living a life of faith.
March 19, 2012
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Salonen: Fathers have lasting impact on daughters
I’ve tucked away a memory I hope every girl, every woman, shares in some form. It took place in our living room, on hardwood floors, when I was around 4. A record spun on a record-player nearby, the needle and arm rising and falling with the grooves of the round, black disk.
February 27, 2012
Salonen: One mentoring mom often inspires others
The nurturing capacity of women in action is a beautiful thing to witness.
And there’s a circular dimension to it. One woman reaches into the life of another and transforms her world. The recipient turns to do the same to another.
February 17, 2012
Parenting Perspectives: Taming the machine that spews ‘stuff’
For a while now I’ve suspected a gigantic, invisible, stuff-spewing machine lurks just below the surface of the earth. And all evidence points to said apparatus having several direct lines to my home and minivan.
How else to explain the extraneous material that finds its way into my life?
By Roxane B. Salonen , December 26, 2011
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