The great Satchel Paige once posed the question, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?" When I was younger I didn't understand the potency of this question. In the new forty I not only understand it - I have a response - 25. If I did not know how [...]
Tag: parenting
The speed of flight…
Well, Cheyenne went back to school this week. This year she is in 6th grade at a new school. The first day of school (which was Tuesday in West Fargo) she was a tad nervous and decided that she had thought better of middle school and would not remind returning to the much more familiar [...]
New rules!
The Princess of Quite-A-Lot is back from her summer-long sojourn with her father and order is restored in the kingdom...with "order" being a relative term. A kingdom with a Queen in the new forty and a Princess of Quite-A-Lot of the age 11 is one helluva' a kingdom. One might argue that no moat or [...]
The value in being freakishly tall…
After I told Cheyenne that she was getting really tall the other day (she is getting amazingly close to my height at the ripe old age of 11), she made a comment that I have not been able to stop laughing about. She said, "I want to grow up to be freakishly tall so I [...]
The last elementary school performance…
Tonight was Cheyenne's last elementary music performance. I had to darn near beg her to wear a skirt. She insisted that she would be the only one wearing a skirt and I insisted she wouldn't. Thankfully there were a handful of other girls who also wore skirts. When Cheyenne realized that she was in the [...]
I’m a super freak!
Cheyenne tells me I am not the cell phone police. Her initial argument forcefully made the point that I was an offender myself right up to a couple of weeks ago. I tried telling her that having seen the light I felt a moral obligation to share it with others...she was not impressed. She told [...]
Puerto Rico wins gold!
The other day in gym Cheyenne's class split into groups to compete Winter Olympic style. Each group had to pick a country that they would represent. Cheyenne suggested Puerto Rico and her group thought that was as good a country as any other. The kids went through a series of events that simulated variations of [...]
THE NEW FORTY 