Category: Parenting
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Holidays Are Coming . . .
As we enter the typically most stressful time of the year (for the US, anyway), I am forced to review my life (again). Family circumstances have changed: there have been deaths, there have been kids going to college, there are kids learning to drive. Injuries that didn’t seem like much at the time but have…
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Loaded Questions
Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life. No plan, no matter how awesome or well-plotted, never survives contact with the situation. The plan WILL CHANGE. Improvisation skills are just as important as being prepared. It doesn’t matter the situation–home, work, finding a job, raising a kid, changing a tire, a relative…
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The Next Generation of Writer
My son has started writing and publishing mash-up fan fiction. He’s having fun, and he says he’s getting a lot of views. He asks how I think Character X would react to Situation 34. He tells me about the chapters he’s just published. He recently asked if I would like to read his work. I…
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Being Supportive
My parents were not as supportive of my desire to write and publish as I would’ve liked them to be. It wasn’t until the last few years of my father’s life that he became a little more (vaguely) supportive of the notion. I don’t know what he was thinking during those last few years. He…
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The Grind of Uncertainty
My children will be entering 6th grade this coming Fall semester. Our school district has announced it has intentions to open with 100% in person learning, five full days a week. “But we still have plans for a hybrid model and a 100% online model, just in case.”‘ I think the 100% in person learning…
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Summer Break
Summer Break is here, which means that my little monkeys are at home. All the time. We’re not that far in and it’s already driving me nuts. This is the last summer for the super-cheap local Day-Camp held by the community center, starting in June and running through July. Next summer, they will be too…
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