Small Success Thursday: Quiet Nudges
I turned the machine off. It was Election Day. I could have fretted and worried and stressed all day about the turn out. It would …

Sherry Antonetti is a mother of ten children and a freelance writer of humor and family life columns with prior publications in Absolutewrite, the Catholic Standard, Beaumont Enterprise and the Washington Post. She can be reached at sherryantonettiwrites@yahoo.com. You can read additional pieces from her blog, http://sherryantonettiwrites.blogspot.com.
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