Halloween…you know how it goes…you get the cute little trick-or-treaters ringing your doorbell all decked out as witches or pumpkins, parents standing not far behind reminding them to say ‘thank you’. A couple of hours go by. Some down time. Then the bell starts again. This time they look a little different. Much bigger [...]
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Sometimes I think having a choice makes things that much more difficult. I have written before about my hesitation and confusion about the HPV vaccine. Here we are a year later. I have no more knowledge – but the rumors continue to spread. Some feel the vaccine should be mandatory. Some think that thought is [...]
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“My son is an honor student.” “My daughter hangs with the right crowd.” “My son is on the football team.” “My daughter is in the Advanced Biology class.” “He would never do drugs, he is too smart for that.” “She is not the type to drink alcohol”. A recent poll conducted by the University of [...]
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The papers have started piling up. You know, those back to school papers of which class does what, the expectations for each class, forms to be filled out, newsletters, you name it. The pile has begun. Last year’s pile still remains (however tucked away in some drawer or closet). Come to think of it the [...]
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Each day around 1 o’clock as I sit here at my desk I hear a terrifying noise coming from the TV in a nearby room. It is the sound of a baby coughing – a very young baby. If you have ever seen the commercial for the pertussis vaccine, you know what I am talking [...]
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My kids tend to fill me in on the topics that outrage them at school each day. It is usually about how a teacher handled a situation or a kid who was irate in class. Yesterday’s news was that a teacher told a kid (these are 8th graders) to leave her classroom and not come [...]
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Remember that feeling when you were a kid of winter finally being over? Time to play outside…and not come in until dinnertime only to go back out once again until you were dragged in by your mom. I remember playing games like Spud and Capture the Flag with the neighbors ALL day. I remember running [...]
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It is that time of year again. Spring sports. Last night I was at the lacrosse field. Today I spent the morning at the soccer field and then back to the lacrosse field only to wake up tomorrow morning and do it all over again. I think I spend more time at those fields than [...]
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A few years back a teacher in a New York State elementary school was convicted of molesting eight young boys. He now is serving 12 years in prison and is an official pedophile. Now he wants to see his 5-year-old daughter whom he has not seen since she was 18 months old. He says [...]
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As a child my house was pretty calm. Well, for the most part. Dinner was easy. Car rides, pretty simple. Everything overall was pretty peaceful. My house today is well, not so calm. It is borderline crazy. Dinner is loud. Car rides are complicated with who will sit where, who is getting dropped off at [...]
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