Our College Visit Disaster: What You Should Learn from My Mistakes
With a song in my heart, I got in the car to drive my daughter to our first college visit. …
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With a song in my heart, I got in the car to drive my daughter to our first college visit. …
Continue ReadingI think one of the hardest things about launching your big kids is wondering what baggage they will take with…
Continue ReadingMemory ghosts dance in the periphery of my mind. Even though three weeks have passed since I dropped her off—my…
Continue ReadingMy freshman year of college I was 18 and felt like I had my whole future planned out and set…
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Continue ReadingTwo days before my first child left for college, I swallowed tears passing the chocolate milk in the grocery store.…
Continue ReadingMy son isn’t going to college. At least that’s not the plan for now. You see, college is pushed on…
Continue ReadingSetting your babies free is not easy like a day at the beach. When they’re little, splashing joyfully on the…
Continue Reading“It’s sort of like having a little taste of war, here,” my son says on the way to the airport.…
Continue ReadingThe season I’ve been preparing for the past several years is here. This is the season my autistic daughter’s peers…
Continue Reading“You need to stop this,” my mother said one evening when I called her in tears. “Join a book club,”…
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