18 years ago, I attended my oldest child's high school graduation with my youngest child on my lap. Sarah was just shy of 18 at the time and Cheyenne was eight-weeks old. I remember the moment with absolute clarity. It was, in so many ways, both surreal and life affirming. I fully appreciated in that moment how [...]
Let's talk high school facial hair. When I take Cheyenne to school each day I see young men - lots of them - with full-blown facial hair. And by full-blown I mean, not the peach fuzz or couple of straggly chin hairs that I saw on teenage boys in my youth, I mean the facial [...]
Lately Cheyenne and I have been arriving at her school in the morning at the same time as one of her friends and her father. We both pull up to the curb to let off our respective offspring. Cheyenne gets out grabs her stuff, on a rare day may mutter a hurried "bye", and slams [...]
Tonight my daughters and I went to see Act Up Theatre's presentation of BARE: A Pop Opera at The Stage in Island Park. The musical addresses the challenges and importance in living one's own truth through a group of seniors at a Catholic high school. BARE deals with acceptance of self and others from an individual, relationship, [...]
Can you remember high school like it was yesterday even though it was clearly not yesterday? All the drama and the hijinks...all the anticipation and the angst...all the promise of an unfettered future without parents always nagging you and ruining your life...can you recall it? I can. The time between then and now has passed [...]
If the fashion world wants to wax nostalgic and continuously revisit trends from the past (some of which should have died a quick death before they pained so many) - why haven't they gotten around to bringing Ditto jeans back into the mainstream? I do believe that Ditto jeans played a key role in the resurgence of men in the [...]
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