There’s a lot of finger pointing lately aimed at helicopter parents—guilt served up by a new study indicating their children grow up to be neurotic (there’s a real scientific breakthrough….). The flip side is Free Range parenting, personified by the Manhattan mom attacked as “the Worst Mother in the World” after she let her 9 year old son […]
The Gores and the state of the union
I just heard the news about Al and Tipper Gore. I’m shocked. Yet I’m not. I won’t sink to speculate on the cause of their separation. To suspect Al Gore is another link in the chain of celebrity cheaters didn’t even occur to me. (Okay, it did– but just briefly). Whether fame and power are […]
Getting enough sleep
We do it from the day we’re born until the day we die; and still it’s confounding. At times, sleep happens when you want it least; then it refuses to happen when you want it most. No wonder it’s the basis of dreams—-and desperation. Getting enough sleep might seem a little silly to be part […]
In the dark
In 2010— millions of people are still in the dark. I don’t get it. In 2010— it’s both ironic and absurd to think a tan is a sign of health; when actually it’s the opposite. Though small amounts of sun help to absorb vitamin D— worship of the sun is proven to be carcinogenic; especially […]
trick photography
Yesterday I took this picture of my daughter at Disneyland…… …..And it was just yesterday that I took this one of her, too. Wasn’t it? Either my eyes or my mind are playing tricks on me. How come Minnie looks the same—-but Mini–Me doesn’t?
peeling and healing
She never signed up for this…… She was 17, trying to escape problems with her mom, when she ran away—to the home of a family member, hundreds of miles away. A few weeks later, her father arrived to make peace and bring her home for Christmas. On Christmas Eve, they boarded a plane together to […]
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