The second Sunday of July is equal to a major holiday in our household, it is an important tradition in my family because it is the day our town hosts the Boilermaker Road Race. The largest 15K in the country. Many years ago, when I was young, thirty-eight years ago to be exact, I was aroused…
I was reading this article from Slate.com on the fallout on kids whose parents are what we call “helicopter parents”(article is linked) and was startled at the desire for some parents to hijack their children’s lives. Since I have a daughter who is heading to college, we talk about the separation aspect of this move quite often,…
Well, if the truth be known, I used to post every day. I enjoyed it. It helped me express myself and my journey. But that was when time wasn’t as hard to come by and collecting my thoughts wasn’t like herding kittens. Please accept this apology from a Lazy Poster. June was a non-stop movement…
<a href=”http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/14054529/?claim=knhmmvb5n2b”>Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a>June of this year is packed with moments that remind me how fleeting this whole early parenting thing really is. Last week, my middle child was Confirmed, which means that she no longer has to take part in the program that I run. I will genuinely miss her being a pain…
Every Memorial Day weekend, my husband and a group of friends and relatives, go deep into the Moose River Plains for a weekend of camping, drinking, cussing, card playing, hiking, eating, fishing and general male bonding activities. Several are Veterans, (including my husband), and they hold a special ceremony to commemorate the meaning of the…
This is a story about my community. http://charleyproject.org/cases/w/wood_sara.html It tells the details. Twenty years later, I still can feel the terror that took over the hearts of our community. Though I didn’t know her or the family, my brother and his family live one house away from the church where her father was Pastor. She was kidnapped about…
I often say, “You never know who is in front of you.” My job is to learn what I can and to facilitate whatever needs to happen. Louis and his brother are in 9th and 6th grade and their parents (his Spanish speaking mother and father) came to sign them up for classes. Neither children…
On June 7, 1993 my husband and I lost a dear friend (his best friend) quite suddenly. It took my closely knit group of friends by total surprise and devastated as you can imagine, his fiancée. His death was completely avoidable (it was unattended appendicitis) but the family who is a large gregarious bunch that…
I woke up in the middle of the night missing my oldest child. She has gone away on a trip with school until tomorrow night. She left in the wee hours of Sunday morning. There is no communication between then and late tomorrow night when she returns. She has been gone before to summer camp…
Happy Birthday Jesus(Please click the link for the story)So, this is what we are offended by? Not poverty, war, abuse or destruction of the environment but by a little old sign on the corner of a street in south Utica (NY). This is what makes National news in a bad way??Utica, NY is a predominantly…