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© 2008 Brooke Allen brooke@brookeallen.com http://www.BrookeAllen.com Originally published in International Family Magazine Someone said, “Mardi Gras starts today.” Six of us shared a table for dinner at the small engineering college in Indiana. I said, “Let’s go?” Four people said, “Why?” Roger said, “Why not?” Roger, who had grown up in Indiana, had only onceContinue reading “Why? Why not?”

© 2007 Brooke Allen brooke@brookeallen.com http://www.BrookeAllen.com Originally published in International Family Magazine Have you ever held a party and had your first guest show up 45 minutes late? Did you have feelings of rejection and doubt? Perhaps nobody would come? Perhaps nobody likes you? Perhaps nobody ever did and they just got tired of beingContinue reading “Party Time”