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My oldest two children are, on the surface, about as opposite as they come. My son Loren is 18 and a free spirited artist. His elementary and middle school years were spent at a Waldorf school where his talents were very much at home. In high school he eventually ended up at an alternative school [...]
My youngest son came home from the bus stop in tears on Friday. Little J has a high functioning form of autism and is mainstreamed into the seventh grade in middle school. I have been wondering when the other kids would clue into this and think it was fun to upset him, because middle school [...]
The other night on our local Philadelphia news came the latest in what has to go into the government WTF file. A bill was introduced by a Philly Councilwoman that would let bars stay open til 3 a.m. That in and of itself isn’t such a big deal, it’s what followed that caught my attention. For [...]
My 22 year old daughter, Brianna, left for Scotland on September 9th. She is reading (as they say in the U.K.) English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, was left to the last minute: packing, last minute purchases of things she couldn’t live without for three months, packing, more last [...]
Its time for the OTDE Theme Meme again! If you’d like to join in, make sure you grab the code below and link up! I always…, I always…ah what do I put here? I always…jump in with both feet. I always…pursue something to the end. I always…reach my goals one way or another. Sometime it [...]
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