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The Listener

By Judy Orlando
(In honor of Mother’s Day this Sunday, WVFC asked our writers for thoughts and experiences related to mothers, parenting or home. Many thanks to Judy Orlando for telling our first story of the week. — Ed.) My children both attended a one-room schoolhouse in the Berkshires, a wonderful public school experiment where 20 third- and fourth-grade public schoolers spent two…
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Emotional Health

Guest Blog: Judy Orlando on Suicide

By Judy Orlando
(We love it when a comment at WVFC is so good that we it deserves its own blog. Such was Judy Orlando’s response to Monday’s Newsmix, which had mentioned a Johns Hopkins study that showed rising suicide rates among boomers. – Ed.) What’s going on here??? When I had just turned 40, a beautiful, educated and warm Frenchwoman, a former…
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