My son limped off the field just before half time at the last football game. I thought it might be a cramp or tiny strain. The injury was something I’d never heard of, a high ankle sprain. Hubby and I figured he’d be out for the next game but then we wondered if he...
With just three weeks until the bulk of college applications are due, I thought I would share a few ways we helped our senior through the essay writing process. Based on my writing experience and the trial-by-fire efforts with our senior, my husband and I came up with...
Nobody said how hard senior year would be. I heard junior year would be awful but the awfulness never surfaced, and I thought wow, made it out alive. In senior year, right from the get-go I have had many sleepless nights. The college application process is stressful...
Fitness and writing are a lot alike. Both take discipline. Both can be kind of lonely. It’s easy to no-show and nobody will say anything. The solution, find a buddy to hold yourself accountable. For workouts, that’s easy: make it social. Run or walk with a friend....
My older son was excited to finish his English essay. What?!? Usually he complains but not this day. His class read “Frankenstein” written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in 1818, in the spirit of Halloween. The assignment: Write a story written...
Over the summer, we hosted a Taiwanese swimmer. He is eighteen and never traveled to America. We introduced him to the American melting pot of cuisine: hamburgers, spaghetti and burritos. He hated hamburgers until he had American beef. That changed everything for...
“Women in the church are more important than bishops or priests,” says Pope Francis. I know he means mothers getting families to church, but I’m stretching it to include everything moms do, the hardest job in the world, and even harder now with...
I would like to comment on the Monday Night Football game on 9/14. When I turned on the TV to see how the 49ers were doing, I thought I had the wrong game. Who are the Vikings playing? Atlanta? Who is that all black team? I’ve been following football since grade...
With two hours to kill before our flight back home from NYC, my family and I visited the fashion museums of 5th Avenue. Literally hundreds to choose from, we settled on two: Musee d’Bergdorf Goodman and Galerie d’Gucci. And, just like The Met or MOMA, the “docents”...
Our family vacation of the summer: New York City. The play, “Act of God” with Jim Parsons drove the trip, a funny must-see. Being it was our second trip in the last few a few years, our tourist to-do list was much shorter. We stayed on the Upper West Side, while most...
