Earthsea: A Perfect Fantasy
Fantasy is one of my favorite genres. As a child, my mom shared fairy tales, with me. When I was a bit older and my dad read me J.R.R....
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Corliss Jacobs
- May 3
- 5 min
Reading Out Loud
Since I was a baby, my parents have read books to me. It started with classic chilldren’s books, like Goodnight, Moon and The Poky Little...
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Corliss Jacobs
- May 2
- 3 min
Winterborne Home: The Meaning of Lost and Found
My younger sister bought a book last year. It was titled Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor, written by Ally Carter. I’d wanted to...
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Corliss Jacobs
- May 1
- 4 min
Fairy Tales — The Stories We Love To Hear
Ah, fairy tales — the classics! Stories of bravery, treachery and magic, where true love saves the day and the good guys live happily...
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Corliss Jacobs
- Apr 30
- 2 min
The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever Made
Do you like chocolate chip cookies? Silly question, of course you do. Years ago, my mom found the best recipe for them on Allrecipes,...
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Corliss Jacobs
- Apr 29
- 5 min
Top Five Television Shows For Kids
Thanks to technology, our world has opened up in many wonderful ways… and many not-so-wonderful ways. An unsupervised tot could come...
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Corliss Jacobs
- Feb 20
- 4 min
Children's Theater: How the Stage Can Light Your Child
When I’m not writing for MomSquad, I am the receptionist at a children’s theater. I watch groups of kids day after day going in and out...
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Corliss Jacobs
- Jan 25
- 3 min
Writing and Why We Do It
There are many aspiring writers in the world, myself included. Writing means different things for different people — a creative outlet...
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Corliss Jacobs
- Jan 23
- 3 min
What Is Courage and Why Should We Take a Leap of Faith?
About a month ago, there was a MomSquad meet-up at Provo Beach, the greatest arcade of all time. My siblings and I were given extremely...
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Corliss Jacobs
- Jan 19
- 3 min
A (Not-So) Perfect Match
Romance novels aren't usually my favorite kind of book, It’s not that I hate romance. It’s that, ironically, romance novels often don't...
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Shelley Colton
- Oct 12, 2023
- 3 min
As Yourself
When Jesus taught "love your neighbor," he added something to that. He added "as yourself." What is the significance of this? And how...
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Shelley Colton
- Oct 10, 2023
- 5 min
What Women Want
We have explored what it is that a man most craves, and even needs, especially from the woman in his life (it's like oxygen!)- to be...
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Ellen Wheeler
- Oct 5, 2023
- 3 min
Family Movie List - With Extra Butter
I have a relative, I’ll call him Sam, who is a federal agent. To protect him, his family, and the people he works with I won't mention...
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Ellen Wheeler
- Oct 3, 2023
- 4 min
Helping Kids Make Good Music Choices
What was your favorite song in high-school? The song you and your besties rocked out to in the car, or the one that played when you had...
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Natalie Lynch
- Sep 29, 2023
- 3 min
Days Worth Celebrating: October
What do we want? Fall? When do we want it? Now! It's that time of year again—the most spookiest, coziest, pumpkin-spiciest season of all....
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Corliss Jacobs
- Sep 21, 2023
- 2 min
Keto Lemon-Lime Popsicles
When I was still in youth Sunday School class at my church, we were sent home with an assignment — come up with our own recipes for...
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K.T. Keller
- Sep 21, 2023
- 5 min
Gaslight (1944)
“Gaslighting” is a word that gets thrown around a lot nowadays. We hear it so often, we know exactly what it means, even when it’s used...
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Ellen Wheeler
- Sep 21, 2023
- 2 min
Menorah at Christmas- Thanks, Barbara
I raised my two older children on the Upper West Side in New York City. They grew up in a small apartment, in a close neighborhood, in...
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Ellen Wheeler
- Sep 20, 2023
- 3 min
Gratitude in Coming Together
If you turn on the news it seems like Americans have nothing left in common. There seems to be more that drives us apart than brings us...
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K.T. Keller
- Sep 19, 2023
- 4 min
Disney's: The Kid
Another lesser-known but adorable live-action Disney film is The Kid, starring Bruce Willis (Die Hard, The 5th Element, Death Becomes...
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