My friends, I absolutely love the change of seasons Riding home on this beautiful fall day. Rays of light danced through the open windows of our white Explorer, and although I didn’t know the exact temperature, I knew it didn’t feel like fall. We passed familiar stores and schools through towns close to ours until […]
Category Archives: Parenting
Time is Funny Like That
My dear friends, everyone has a father so I know you’ll understand . . . He dozed off to sleep again, only waking to share his outrageous dreams with me. He calls them hallucinations. Stories he tells me (in his words, not mine) of blacks and jews, stories of wars he is fighting for everyone’s […]
Out into the COVID World
And now, my friends, we venture out into the world wearing masks and staying 6′ apart. People giggle nervously as they struggle to navigate the “new normal.” And some refuse the new normal. Some feel more comfortable staying home to avoid the reality. Some describe the masks as political statements. At this point in my […]