Back to school: Supplies and demands
I support schools, staff, and students every day. I am also very much a "suck it up buttercup and do what the teacher says"...
Let me call you sweetheart
Recently, our local newspaper featured a letter to the editor from a reader irate not about the war, economy, unbearably hot weather, unsafe eggs...
Is summer really over?
When summer began I had the same feeling many parents do, worrying about how I was going to fill all those long, lazy days....
Priorities on ice
One minute you are a capable, intelligent person fully able to function in polite society. The next you have forgotten the recipe for ice...
A good woman is rare gift
Other things may change us but we start, and end, with family.~ Anthony BrandtI find it sad as I age that I meet so...
Surviving the good old days
As I was scraping paint off our century-old porch posts and treating it as the proper-biohazard that it is due to the lead menace...
It’s how you play the game
It’s how you play the game
You win some, you lose some, and sometimes you lose them all. We are old hats at recreational soccer....
The bat days of summer
In the 14 years we have lived here, we have had a handful of bats fly in for a visit. PETA can picket me...
Not feeling the love: How do moms deal with bullies?
I love my kids, I love my friends' kids, and I would probably love YOUR kids. This does not mean I love ALL kids. I am full up to HERE with mean girls and bullies.
The art of hobby-free existence
It is fairly well established that one should never discuss politics or religion in polite company. I think, however, that a third category of...
