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November 9, 2016. The morning after the Presidential Election: COLD and RED
A Letter To My Daughters Read More »
Someone got the memo yesterday. The problem is HE didn’t understand it.
Karma is a Beyotch? Read More »
This is BE KIND week at Sabino High School. Given my daughter has come home in tears two days in a row so far this week, I don’t think it’s working. Apparently someone didn’t get the memo.
Willow’s invitation was not without fanfare, and I’ve gotta hand it to the guy, he clearly tailored it to fit the girl he asked.
When Did Prom Invites Get To Be Such Productions? Read More »
My entire family overheard the phone conversation I had with the “mom volunteer” (MV) who answered the high school attendance line, and they witnessed my dropped-jaw reaction.
Volunteer Burnout Once Again Rears Its Rude Head Read More »
My daughter ran into a soccer mom yesterday, someone neither she nor I have seen since the school season ended back in February.
“How’s your mom?” asked the woman.
“She cut off all her hair,” responded my daughter.
I Will Never Be a BRECK Girl Read More »
“All little girls should be told how pretty they are,” says Marilyn. “They should grow up knowing how much their mother loves them.”
My Week With Willow Read More »
“Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek
Looking Back to Brookfield Read More »
I don’t know whether or not this is true or if it’s Valley legend, but I’m going to share it anyway. From the moment the texts began chiming into my daughters’ phones, and postings on Facebook informed us there was a shooting in the neighborhood on New Year’s Eve, we paid attention as the details
“He Won’t Shoot Me.” Read More »