Chase: WHAT is that? Me: It is what Daddy and I are going to eat for the next 11 days. Chase: That’s it? Me: I think you also get to eat a few almonds here and there. Chase: And WHY are you doing this? Me: Just because. I want to be healthy. Chase: Mom! [...]
Tomorrow morning as America lies sleeping, Dave and I along with the rest of the A-team will be racing in the DQ Marlton Lakes Sprint Triathlon. So what happens when a bunch of forty-something suburbanites decide they have something to prove, but aren’t exactly sure what that is? Let’s take a look: Meet Emily a.k.a. [...]
With much of the health care reform debate centering on the issue of cost, allow me to offer but a single idea that could potentially add up to billions of dollars of savings, hours of enhanced productivity, and a redistribution of revenue away from the EVIL insurance companies and into the hands of average Americans. [...]
It has been said that every human being has a masculine and feminine side. Carl Jung believed that when you dream about men and women, you are not necessarily dreaming about those actual people but about your own male and female self. This random piece of theory, which I’m sure I mangled in its description, often has [...]
I hoped against hope that the brothers would bond at camp this summer. The love for one another that I know exists way down deep inside of them would blossom and they would return as best buddies. When they made it all the way home from Kunkletown without a single request for the other to [...]
Camp Pickup Day 2009 I never thought I would be one of “those parents” who sends their kids away to sleep away camp. Surely, anyone who could part with their darling cherubs for longer than a few days must NOT LOVE THEM. Right? Wrong. We love our kids. We did it. We survived. Might I [...]
In the last week or so, several stories in the news have been begging the same question: When do you forgive? Do you forgive someone for transgressions which may be distasteful to some but in reality are the product of being human? Do you forgive someone for bad judgment, stupidity, and even cruelty if [...]
Thanks to all the good wishes and support for Chase’s recovery at camp. I am relieved to report that he has been “discharged” from the infirmary and hopefully is back with his bunk making macaroni art with a vengeance. When the kids are sick or injured, it is every parent’s God given right to fret [...]
We got the call yesterday afternoon. I was taking a nap on the sofa – an activity I have tried to embrace while the boys are at camp. With one week to go before we pick them up, I am going to try to nap as much as possible. Given my intensely insane in the [...]
Lately I’ve been feeling geographically impotent. Whereas it never used to bother me that I have lived within the same 15 square mile radius my entire life, I am starting to wonder if I have sold myself short by planting my feet and relishing my role as the hometown girl. With the brothers living at [...]
