A Blast from the Past in honor of my scribbling-hater becoming a mother, any day now. . . I left work later than I should have. I took a phone call when I should have been finishing up everything for the day. As I pulled up to the nursery school I could see there was…
John Lennon gets credit for the title of this post. Perhaps you remember that things didn’t end so well for him. M Scott Peck begins the Road Less Travelled with the statement, “Life is difficult.” There is a difference between inconvenient and tragic. The earthquake in Nepal and our neighbor’s murder two weeks ago that left…
A BLAST FROM THE PAST from the RUNNING IN HIGH HEELS series by Jane F. Collen I was outside giving my seven-year-old son batting practice in the middle of the afternoon, abandoning the desk full of files waiting to be worked on, pitching around the blister I got from gripping my pen too tightly. I did…
While children can be pretty resilient, there are certain circumstances from which recovery is challenging. Two local situations involving children will test the mettle of those involved. These prompted me to think about when intervention is appropriate and when it’s not. In my neighborhood, two children, ages 3 and 5, were discovered outside in their pajamas. A passerby alerted…
It’s Spring! (in spite of the continued cold) and Baseball Season is in full swing! Baseball gives us so many great parables for life lessons. An example: being a fan and following the careers of even the best baseball players, ones that win Batting Tittles, shows you they often strike out — and the average…
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