Snapping Bras on the School Bus – It Is More Than “Boys Will Be Boys”

It started about 4th or 5th grade.  I don’t remember when it hit, exactly, but I know I was young.  It seems that my entire “period of growth” lasted from about 10 years old ending only when I entered high school. Riding the bus was a living nightmare.  We lived in a new neighborhood - …

They are Getting So Big

How big are you?  SO BIG.  One of the first little games they played with their Grandma and we all cooed and laughed and clapped along with them. People always think they are older than they are.  I hear, "are they five?" often.  And my answer is usually, "they are just three, they are still …

Everyone Thinks They Are Failing at Something

Don't let anybody fool you.  What you see on the outside is often altogether misleading. My friend Sheila wrote this great piece last week - Me and My Elmo Feet  - talking about perception vs reality.  What it means to be a grown up and that she is, after all, a grown up (and a lovely one …