This past Tuesday I was walking on the same Long Island beach that I have known since I was a girl. My mind was wandering aimlessly, memories coming at me in no order or direction. Just like it did years before my husband, children, and my messy laundry room occupied my thoughts most of the time. Of course the stroll wasn't exactly carefree because I was with my three children. … [Read more...]
Touchstones
Each day I do the "morning tango." First, I get my daughter on her bus, blow her a kiss, return to the front door, and then come back out again with my youngest. After he gets on his bus with a kiss and a smile, once again I go into the house only to come back out half an hour later to drive my oldest son to middle school. Each time, I dash in and out of my door, I get to see a … [Read more...]
Parenting 101
My father taught me on of the best parenting lessons I ever learned, and I was only five at the time. One of my favorite things when I was a little girl was to go to Eisenhower Park with my family. The park had a small petting zoo that included a pig pen. Any time my two sisters and I disobeyed our parents, we would be warned that we would be sent to live with the pigs. It was … [Read more...]
