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By Katia Hetter (CNN) — Few of us can imagine living the opulent “Downton Abbey” lives of the fictional Crawley family at the turn of the 20th century. There were servants to address one’s every material need, dinner in white tie and lavish gowns, and rules designed to keep the [...] By Katia Hetter (CNN)–In this age of farm-to-table dinner adoration and making one’s own butter and baking powder from scratch, I rise up in defense of the drive-thru, the TV dinner and the semi and fully-prepared dinners from the grocery store. That includes bags o’ salad, minced garlic and frozen pizza. As I return [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Sam Lamott, the baby star of best-selling author Anne Lamott’s classic memoir, “Operating Instructions,” was finally grown up and safely ensconced at art school in San Francisco. Before Sam was born and during his childhood, Anne Lamott had developed a community of [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN Editor’s note: CNN’s Freedom Project highlights the horrors of modern-day slavery, amplifying the voices of the victims, highlighting success stories and helping expose the web of criminal enterprises trading in human life. (CNN) — Kimberly Ritter could not believe what she was seeing. Girls wearing [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Many New Year’s resolutions are flawed from the start, destined to fail. People resolve to lose 20 pounds or stop eating junk food or stop smoking or keep a spotless house. The resolutions are too enormous, the behaviors too ingrained, the [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — David Murphy hasn’t started shopping for his two boys yet, and he knows he had better get started. The divorced father of two boys, ages 11 and 14, has custody for a full week around Christmas Day this year and needs [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Noël Plummer can’t imagine making a conscious decision to inflict physical pain on her 8-year-old daughter as a punishment. She’s only slapped her daughter once, without thinking, when her then-5-year-old was having an enormous tantrum. She’s never hit her again. While she recognizes [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — I have no idea why my 3-year-old wants to be a cowboy for Halloween this year, because she won’t tell me. That’s OK. I don’t need to know her reasoning to make it happen. Thanks to her outdoorsy grandparents who live in [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Olivia Nakamura can still remember the neighbor who always hosted a barbecue in his front yard for his son’s birthday party. He’d invite all the kids on their suburban Seattle block, except her son and the Asian-American children who lived there. “I [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Colin Ryan was attending his second day of high school on September 11, 2001, when an airplane crashed into the World Trade Center’s north tower. Ryan, then 14, received a note in school saying his father, John, who worked on the 89th [...] |
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