Baby Therapy for a Prozac World
All true stories. All evoke emotion. All teach a lesson. All is love.
When you care for elderly in your home, it can be a life changing experience. Sitting in my office, I just heard my father talking to my deceased mother saying, “Hopefully, I won’t be long.” I feel tears well up in my eyes, but it is all he wants. I thought it would be a…
After a long month of rather aggravating series of events, driving in the car with some kids, I said, “Let’s just go to Burger King. I feel like eating garbage.” My son lovingly says, “You deserve it!” I looked over and said, “So, I deserve to eat garbage?” Hardest laugh all day. I needed that.
Do you ever think about the reasons people speak in opposition to weapons? I ask myself that all the time. In the face of an ongoing war, the government expects us to sign our children up to serve but do not allowed them to learn about weapons. Maybe the insurgence of violence in our cities gets you…
My four-year-old son looks like a seven-year-old. He is almost 60 lbs. and is built like a brick outhouse as they used to say in the olden days. (I think I may be keeping it G for the blog but you get the drift). He is a big boy but sometimes still acts like a…
“I don’t know how you do it.” This is how my brother and countless other people respond to me when I tell them anything that I do. Sometimes I wonder what they envision I should be doing instead that I wouldn’t have time for the thing that I am telling them. It is about as…
We have been parents for almost twenty years, and yes, I count the day of conception as the start date of the parenting endeavor. So, all told, in a couple of months, twenty years will have gone by, and FAST! When we began this life together, we told each other a few things about what…
Reply to all…when is this NOT a good idea? Maybe 3:55 am? Yeah, that could be a bad idea. In real life, things happen like someone wetting the bed and waking you at 3:50 am. You follow up on this by putting clothes on, finding your glasses and a hair tie to get the hair…