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I’m a Stella D’oro Kind of Mom
In recent years, the movement to promote awareness of certain illnesses, conditions, and cultural differences has been successful in uniting and educating each of us. We can stop for a minute and appreciate and...
Coming Home From My Guilt Trip
The start of a new decade has shown us that it's possible to unify and separate an entire world population simultaneously in ways that none of us could ever have imagined. The pandemic, or...
Can We Agree to Disagree?
An opinion, by definition, is a personal belief or view, not based on enough facts to produce total certainty. We each are entitled to an opinion regarding ANY subject matter, and therein, unfortunately, lies...
Are Teenage Years the Best Years?
Are the teenage years the best?
Ideally, they should be, but a teenager faces so many changes, physically, mentally, and emotionally that if the parents of a teen are not in tune with them, their...
Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at COVID-19
BEFORE: Each morning, we would hit the ground running, off to work, school, or anywhere we needed to be. The point was we left.
AFTER: Quarantine sent us ALL back to the starting line.
And since...
I Can Still Dance
We each have a “go-to” activity to fight stress. Under normal circumstances, we choose ways to decompress so we can function properly throughout a stressful week. Some moms like shopping for hours for useless...
Sixty is the New Me
This is what I know so far. Sixty is an extraordinarily tough year.
Amidst Type A flu, the stomach bug, leap year, and now the coronavirus, I turned 60 years old. A midlife crisis hit me...
A Mother Always Makes Room at the Table
I think all of us moms can agree on this...the role a mother plays in the lives of her children is very crucial and far-reaching at any and every age.
But I didn’t realize just...
Be Thankful All Year Round
Several weeks ago, another Turkey Day went down in the books, and suddenly a new holiday season is upon us. Wow, time has taken some serious flight! And as it happens every year, the...
Has Cooking Become a Dying Art?
The trend of not cooking has been slowly growing, but I realized very recently just how popular it’s become. Ironically, I think I’ve been too busy preparing three-course dinners every night even to notice.
What’s...