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Christmas 2.0

My Christmas tree doesn’t look like this anymore. In fact. there are no gifts under the tree at all. There isn’t even a tree skirt; the dogs just keep playing with it and doing their business on it, so what’s the use?
These days, the girls’ Christmas lists just include money and gift cards so they [...]

Once More Across Home Plate

I turned 51 a couple of weeks ago. I like birthdays. And no cancer survivor in their right mind complains about getting another year older.
It’s kind of like a lopsided baseball game — even though the winning team is far ahead, they still try to cross home plate one more time. You can certainly [...]

Sunset or Sunrise?

It was a beautiful sunset — or was it a sunrise?
I watched it from our deck of my family’s house overlooking Greers Ferry Lake. Sara Ann was about to begin her senior year in high school, my last school year with a child at home. Prelude to the empty nest.
Between the uncharacteristically cool breeze, the [...]

SocialCamp Memphis Helps Parents Clue In

When: March 6 – 7, 20098:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
You should come if:

you have never heard of Twitter and don’t understand why the word friend is now in regular use as a verb.
you think being followed online means a call to the police is in order.
your kids are into Facebook and you are clueless.
you kind [...]

Life With Teenagers: The Hills I'm Not Gonna Die On: Part Two

In this post I began this discussion of the hill I refuse to die on. This is the rest of the list.

Noise Teenagers are loud. As long as they are inside my house and not disturbing my neighbors, I don’t care how loud they are — I’m just glad they are safe at my [...]