Graduation Days

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My youngest child can now: Vote, Buy cigarettes, Get a tattoo, Sign a lease, Get married, Join the military, Be prosecuted as an adult. I hope she does 1 and 5 (but let’s wait a few years for 5), 3 is coming soon, I figure she’ll do 4 in a year or so and hope [...]

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 [...]

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?

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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 [...]

SocialCamp Memphis Helps Parents Clue In

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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 [...]