If I had a dollar for each time Cheyenne lamented - "Why can't you just own a hair salon or something? Why do you have to be in emergency management?" - I would have a fist full of dollars. It comes up every single time I reference anything about her safety or security. I am, [...]
Tag: children
Wired differently…
14 years of sparkle…
Today is Miss Sparkle's 14th birthday. And no, that isn't an April Fool's Day joke...well, at least not this year. As I say every year on this day, the universe was likely trying to layer on a sarcastic commentary when I had Cheyenne on April 1, 1999 - just three months before my 40th birthday. [...]
That was pretty filling…
Cheyenne is a voracious reader. She is the type of kid who actively asks for books as gifts and can spend the bulk of a day with her nose buried in a novel. I used to be like that when I was a kid. I remember the power of a good book to keep you [...]
The zen room…
Cheyenne is in the process of switching bedrooms in the house. She waged a long campaign and enlisted the support of her siblings to likewise campaign on her behalf. After a couple of years I finally acquiesced to the constant begging and occasional nagging. You wouldn't think moving from one room to another in the [...]
They are all “our” children…
I was grateful to see President Obama on television this evening speaking at the Memorial Service in Newtown, Connecticut. I felt that the members of that community and the country needed to hear the President acknowledge that the horror of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary is a shared sorrow. In the President's comments he referred to the [...]
We shall find peace…
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels; we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. ~Anton Chekhov Charlotte Bacon, 2/22/2006 Daniel Barden, 9/25/2005 Olivia Engel, 7/18/2006 Josephine Gay, 12/11/2005 Ana Marquez-Greene, 4/4/2006 Dylan Hockley, 3/8/2006 Madeleine Hsu, 7/10/2006 Catherine Hubbard, 6/8/2006 Chase Kowalski, 10/31/2005 Jesse Lewis, 6/30/2006 James Mattioli, 3/22/2006 Grace McDonnell, 11/4/2005 [...]
THE NEW FORTY 