The Sandwich Generation
The Sandwich Generation: middle-aged adults caught between the obligations of raising children and taking care of aging, sometimes ill, parents. Continue Reading
Family Life
The Butterflies Prevail
When I was 5 years old I experienced my first-ever crush on a human being. He was a fireman friend Continue Reading
Lucky gopher.
Spruce Up Your Garden in Three Easy Steps is what the magazine announced on its cover. But, I didn’t bother Continue Reading
You say tomato, I say pasta sauce.
My son has language processing issues and despite being 13 years old, he communicates more like a typical 8 or Continue Reading
Are you Twitterpated?
In the movie Bambi, one of the characters is accused of being twitterpated, meaning all swoony and loopy in love. Continue Reading
Everybody is talking about the weather…
… but nobody’s doing anything about it.” — Mark Twain It’s raining here in Southern California and the television, radio Continue Reading
An absorbent observer
Over the course of my life I have often heard the words, “You’re not very observant.” It’s true. I’m not. Continue Reading
Oprah has a To Do List?
Today I heard Oprah Winfrey utter the words, “I’d like to do that … that’s something I’ve never done.” It Continue Reading
Encounters of the Elevator Kind
Is there such a thing as elevator etiquette? I mean, this isn’t the kind of thing I’ve ever seen in Continue Reading
Birds, Bees and TMI
A long, long time ago my kid watched the film that 5th grade educators called a "Growth Film”, but all the Continue Reading