I’m still thinking about my father, who died 25 years ago. As I mentioned in last week’s blog post, he was quite a character and a one-man party. Here are some of the fun things he did. 1. One year he bought us baby chicks for Easter (even though we didn’t celebrate Easter). This was
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Last Saturday was the 25th anniversary of my father’s death. He died when he was 60 years, 9 months old. I was really hoping that California Chrome would win the Triple Crown on his death day, as he was a big horse racing fan. In fact, he died at the race track, but the odds
It seems the price that moms must pay for raising a sweet, gentle child is that you will have to experience his being bullied. Bullies have radar for the kids who are innocent and nonviolent. How do I know this? Well, I am an expert based on my vast years of experience raising two gentle boys.
My favorite room in the house, and I suspect, a top choice of many moms, is the bathroom. It’s one of the few places a mom can go where it is understood she needs some privacy. Of course when the kids were little, I had to bring them in with me for safety purposes. That
I just filed a 39-page brief in a United States District Court appeal of a Social Security Disability case. This case is about a little boy diagnosed with ADHD and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. I have been working on this case since 2011, when my client was 8 years old. We went to a hearing and
One of the results of kids growing up and going to college or getting jobs is that it becomes pretty difficult to get everyone together for a holiday. Add to that working parents who need a whole weekend day to prepare the necessary food and cake, and you have an almost impossible situation. In my
Many years ago, while I was getting the best haircut I ever got in my life, Will the hair stylist and I got to talking about Mother’s Day cards. Turns out we both had the same predicament: none of the loving mushy cards seemed to match our complicated relationships with our mothers. For example, I
There are many things that scare me. Chief among them are bugs. And they know it, too, so they seek me out. As the long-awaited spring returns to Connecticut, most of us are happy to feel the warmer weather and see the flowers starting to come up, but to me, it means that bugs are
Children are full of surprises. You think you can anticipate what might occur, the kinds of phone calls you’ll get from them or about them, the kinds of questions they will ask…but you have no idea what surprises are in store. Here are some of the conversations that have occurred during my years as a
Last week I was feeling very low. I couldn’t figure out why until I looked at the calendar. It turns out that last Tuesday was the anniversary of a very difficult event at work (some of you may recall that I had a difficult series of events related to my job in 2013). I wasn’t
