Bernadette Moyer's Writings
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Aug.21.2012
I Survived An Italian Mother, A Catholic Education and Three Kids …
By Bernadette A. Moyer
I survived an Italian mother, a Catholic education and three kids; in a word I survived a boat load of guilt! My mother was famous for making us feel bad if we did wrong or made a mistake. Since my parents divorced when I was in the sixth grade, I watched my mother...
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Aug.17.2012
What We Leave Behind … Long Live The Slumber Party!
By Bernadette A. Moyer
Most of us want to know that our life and that our work mattered and hopefully our best work will live on long after we are gone. Several years ago I created a high tea event called Trends, Tulips and Tea. It was my signature event during my years as the Special Events Manager at The...
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Aug.10.2012
A Time for Reinvesting In Ourselves
By Bernadette A. Moyer
It is becoming clear to me that our 50’s will be a time of reinvesting in ourselves. For years we were living in the “sandwich” years between supporting ailing parents and raising our children. With two high demand careers, very little in the past ten years was about investing in ourselves. We spent our...
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Aug.04.2012
Caleb Was Lost On The Beach
By Bernadette A. Moyer
It was hot and it was so crowded on the beach that day. The weather was sunny and hot around 90 degrees and the water temps were nice at around 73 degrees. The beach was packed on this Thursday and so many people were in the water.
As I sat in my chair I noticed a little boy pass me. He was shaking both his arms...
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Jul.31.2012
A Wedding Anniversary
By Bernadette A. Sahm
On August 1st 2012 I will be married to my husband Brian for fifteen years. We have been a couple for twenty years now. I have always admired couples who get married and stay married. The couples who survive and stay together and can boast about 30, 40 or 50 years together as a married couple.
I have vivid recall of our...
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Jul.25.2012
Sometimes All You Need to Do Is Just Sit Back and Watch
By Bernadette A. Moyer
Sometimes the truly smart thing is to do nothing and just sit back and watch. There are times in life when it really is best to just let things unfold. For most of my life, I was always the first one.
I was the first one in my family and peer group to get married, to have a child and...
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Jul.21.2012
The Longest Relationship You Will Ever Have is the Relationship With Yourself
By Bernadette A. Moyer
The longest relationship you will ever have is with yourself, and for me, it also includes God. The way we treat people and our honesty and dishonesty is something that only we can reconcile. So many of us are hugely invested in our parents, our children, our...
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Jul.20.2012
You Can Even Buy a Mortgage and a House on the Internet
By Bernadette A. Moyer
It used to be a personal business, an intimate one where you disclosed all your financial information to your local bank or that friend or associate who came highly recommended and could help you to secure a mortgage. But not anymore, now you can do it all online.
For years I have...
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Jul.16.2012
http://bernadetteamoyer.com/post/15295449492/witness-our-friends-our-fam...
Click on the above link for Witness ... Our Friends ... Our Family ... Our Spouses
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Jul.10.2012
And Then We Die …
By Bernadette A. Moyer
But have we lived? We all know that death is a definite, no one escapes it! If I live to be 100, I will only have known and experienced 100 summers and 100 Christmas holidays. It doesn’t seem like that is a whole lot so I have tried my best to live as full of a life as I can live.
When I was widowed at just 23 years...
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Halfway Home The First 50 Years is very affecting. ”
—Delaware Division of Libraries
About Bernadette
I have written a few children's books, most newsworthy is Angel Stacey and an adult book of essays Halfway Home The First 50 Years which can also be used as an interactive journal. Books are available at amazon.com and I write and post regularly at www....
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