Blog--a.k.a My Latest Pen Nibs | Elizabeth Daghfal | writer | teacher

My Rearview Mirror

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With a title like that, I guess I could take this many directions. For one, “forgetting what lies behind, but pressing on to what’s ahead.”

Mothering that Never Grows Old

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Parenting can be 24/7. For years. And for much of that time, you labor to work yourself out of the job. But some parts? They

Kids: Recognizing His Gift at the Heart of the Work

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I’m sure you’ve heard it. At least once. “Why isn’t there a Kids’ Day?”

In Memory of “Where were you…?”

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I heard it from my grandmother—the question of her day: Where were you on the attack of Pearl Harbor?

Arms Outstretched

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I ran into a friend today, and I started to cry. No, I didn’t actually run into her—just the figurative collision. But the crying was

In with the New

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originally written for my “Family Time” Column in Fountain of Life Magazine, Jan/Feb 2016 It seems we are a people who love new beginnings. Turning over a

When Faith Becomes Visible: The Story of One Woman Who Did Not Forget

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It was a moment to cherish. There I sat in her living room watching this precious woman, my grandmother-in-law, play her special version of patty-cake