By Anne Donegan Costas INTRODUCTION OF ROLES IN A FAMILYEver thought about the role you play in your family? Did you even know there was such a thing? I find it to be extremely interesting that each child assumes a role in the family to which they are born. This would be called your family […]

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By Anne Donegan Costas It felt like Christmas Eve.  There were no Nativities, no Christmas trees, no carolers, and no bright lights.  And yet the feel of Christmas was in the air.  That same exciting expectation of a new birth at Christmastime abounded.  I took the obligatory family picture of Mom and Dad with the […]

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REFLECTIONS A Spiritual Journey By Anne Donegan Costas   Our reflections and thoughts on Christmas are many as we think back over the past weeks.  The lights are put away, the trees are down, the family have all returned to their own homes and daily routines.  All is back to normal.  Or is it?  Or […]

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A NEW DAY By Anne Donegan Costas THANKFUL Being thankful is a way of life I strive for daily.  I am thankful for so many things on so many plains that I cannot even count them.  You are, most likely, like me.  Thanksgiving Day is, I guess, a formal way of saying thanks.  It doesn’t […]

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By Anne Donegan Costas POWER STRUGGLES Power struggles are between any two people vying for power for that moment.  The power struggle can be between parent and child, teacher and child, or peers of any age.  How do they get started and what can we do about them are two questions I hope to answer. […]

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By Anne Donegan Costas My Grandfather wrote about influencing others years ago.  I think just about all of  his children, grandchildren and beyond have a copy of this in our homes and/or offices. I think they are words to live by and I read them frequently and try and adopt them as my own~~~   […]

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