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Tag Archive: "Family"

Courage, Faith, and a Little Bit of Crazy: Reflections on Entering the Corporate World

  POSTED: February 1, 2020
  AUTHOR: Amy Spiegel
  TOPIC(S): Family • Theology
 TAG(S): American Income Life • faith • Family • work

There are leaps of faith one takes in life which take all three. Getting married. Having kids. Jumping out of airplanes, though I think marriage and parenthood take a lot more courage, faith, and crazy. At 45, I thought I … Continued

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Best Spiegel Kids’ Sayings of 2011

  POSTED: December 29, 2011
  AUTHOR: Jim Spiegel
  TOPIC(S): Family
 TAG(S): Family • kids

As every parent knows, children say the darnedest things.  So the last couple of years I’ve taken to writing down some of my kids’ choicest verbal morsels.  Here is an annotated list of the most memorable ones from the past … Continued

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Confessions of a Home Schooler

  POSTED: October 15, 2010
  AUTHOR: Amy Spiegel
  TOPIC(S): Education • Family
 TAG(S): Education • Family • homeschooling

You know that sick, forehead slapping feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when a regrettable discovery makes its way to the forefront of your mind just a little too late, when there is nothing to be done … Continued

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Turning the Cultural Tide

  POSTED: July 9, 2010
  AUTHOR: Amy Spiegel
  TOPIC(S): Cultural Observations
 TAG(S): culture • Family

Anyone who has spent any length of time with me—like let’s say more than five minutes—will be able to tell you that being counter-cultural is something that I am very comfortable with. In fact, to go with the flow often … Continued

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Big Families and the Environment

  POSTED: September 6, 2008
  AUTHOR: Jim Spiegel
  TOPIC(S): Cultural Observations • Ethics • Film
 TAG(S): children • environment • Family • vegetarian

As a father of four kids, I am sometimes asked whether my wife and I “intended” to have “so many” children.  They say, “I don’t want to be rude, but…”  Well, the answer is yes; we did intend to have … Continued

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