Are college kids getting a bad rap… or pegged correctly by their elders?
I Want Easy But It’s Hard: Fighting the Workaholic
Are you a workaholic? Is it necessity or self-imposed?
Artful Amusement
Experiencing art… any way we can.
Grownup Get-Away (Free Play for Everyone?)
De-stress camp???
How to Learn Swedish (and Why)
Swedish… for the maturing pleasure of its palate.
Wishful Thinking
Wishful thinking and plentiful daydreaming… healthy helpers.
Politics as Usual Presents… “Short Memory, Bad News”
Politics as usual? Mark Sanford’s run for Congress. Forgive and forget?
No Easy Answers
If it is a jigsaw puzzle, even a tricky one, eventually I can manage it. If it is a gadget requiring multiple steps to assemble, I may struggle unless I have expert assistance. If I must first dismantle a mechanism and then reconfigure it to make it work, it is even more difficult for me […]
Our Culture of Violence: Do We Give Up?
I’ve been listening to live reports from NBC, feeling sick to my stomach. If you haven’t heard, the story is still breaking news. Somewhere around 9:40 a.m., a lone gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and shot and killed children. Numbers are still being confirmed, and information continues to change, but current […]
Big Storm, Big Heart?
The first thing I did when I woke this morning was check weather online in the cities where my sons attend college. Then I checked the news online, to see what damage Hurricane Sandy’s impacts continued to wreak through the night. I opened a window to access Facebook and read any messages from my boys. […]