Stressed, unhappy parents create stressed, unhappy children.
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Suprise Me
Stuck-at-Home
Prompted By Stay-at-Home Parent
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Stressed, unhappy parents create stressed, unhappy children.
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Reefer Madness: An Early Encounter with Anti-Weed Hysteria
Prompted By Drugs and Alcohol
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Martha Lupton Schneidewind was the name of my high school journalism teacher. A tall, birdlike woman, she wore wool suits and ladylike scarves and had a quick, scampering walk. She was kind, loquacious and, to my insensitive teenage self, amusingly absurd with her chirping voice and outdated phraseology. During the mid-1960s, teenage drug use was…
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You Can Leave Your Hat On
Prompted By Hats
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My Christmas Poetry
Prompted By Holiday Letters
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Each year a homemade card, each year a poem
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Off We Go
Prompted By Planes and Trains
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But in 1961 our family was headed for East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) for a two-year stint and I was now eleven-going-on-twelve. For me, it was an escape into the unknown, a reprieve from the prospect of junior high, and I was certain that all my frames of reference would shift.
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A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That…
Prompted By Memorabilia
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First, I was saddened to read that JeanZ had passed. I was one of the early beta-testers of Restrospect, and I had many exchanges with her and others in that group. I haven’t posted in a long time. When I saw the membership was growing, I kind of dropped out believing that I had done…
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The Basement Beckons
Prompted By Basements and Attics
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Our grungy basement was perfect for free play, a thing all kids need.
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Enchanted
Prompted By Favorite Fairy Tale
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In one of life’s ironies we moved to an even nicer part of town when my father fell ill. Our new house, set on a hill, had an enormous backyard and an adjoining wood lot wildly overgrown with flowering shrubs, abandoned rock gardens and a crumbling stone wall. One side was steeply graded and seemed…
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Reflections of the Times
Prompted By Buttons, Pins, and Badges
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I have never worn my “heart on my sleeve”. We’ve given a LOT of money in this campaign cycle, more than at any time in the past. We truly believe this IS the most important election of our lifetime. I have the date early voting starts for Massachusetts marked in my calendar, though my…
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My Funny Valentine
Prompted By Valentine's Day
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I am not a big fan of Valentine’s Day, a holiday that creates such high expectations that one is almost bound to be disappointed.
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