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Winter Whites: Wine Picks to Chill With, Embrace Cold Weather – The Mommies Reviews
Over 400 Years Ago, New Year’s Day Was Created In Hopes of Triggering Better, Fresh Starts for All LOS ANGELES, January 7, 2025 — New Year’s Day ranks among the oldest of holidays, created by Pope Gregory XIII on his personally revised calendar in 1582, intending to make it a time for people to make changes for the better. The date was chosen partly in honor of Janus, the Roman god of “beginnings,” from whom the month of January got its name. The late Dr. Pieter Noomen, a psychotherapist who worked in suicide prevention and hospice and served as a senior minister for various Protestant churches, said he experienced many conversations…
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Winter Whites: Wine Picks to Chill With, Embrace Cold Weather
Winter might be synonymous with bold reds, but some of the season’s most delightful pairings come from the world of full-bodied, complex white wines. Whether it’s an oaked Chardonnay with creamy pasta, a floral Viognier for spiced Moroccan tagines, or an adventurous orange wine for hearty winter fare, white wines bring balance, texture, and vibrant flavor to the colder months. Below Sylvia Ba, a vinicultural expert with VinoVoss—a cutting-edge AI sommelier app, offers a deep dive into some tasty winter white wine picks. Interest here as we hope? Winter Whites: Chill Out with These Cold Weather White Wine Picks Winter is about warm and cozy ambiance and hearty, comforting dishes.…
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Teen girls are “stepping up and showing up” to overcome high school’s hardest challenges and biggest fears
Program inspired by troubling data on teenage girls’ mental health referrals and hospitalizations At Carlynton Junior-Senior High School in Carnegie, a community just outside of Pittsburgh, PA, an innovative program called Girls Supporting Girls is making the high school’s challenges easier for girls to navigate together. As the program grows, girls are building skills, forging friendships, and even charting new paths toward future careers. It all began when school psychologist Patricia Serdy was looking at troubling data on teenage girls’ mental health referrals and hospitalizations. “I found some pretty consistent trends: girls who were at an age in their life where they were really just struggling, but they were struggling…
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