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Fear: How to Cope and Help Our Kids Do the Same

May 04 2020

News flash: I sometimes post my opinions on social media. I even post my frustrations. Recently a friend from high school messaged me how angry she was at one of my Facebook posts. Her ire spread from that particular opinion, to one of my “likes” and from there to how much she despised my exercise regiment and shoe choice and everything in between. It was a stunning tirade that soon revealed the fuel behind it: Fear. Fear of COVID-19. Fear of being unprepared. Fear that she wouldn’t be able to get toilet paper. Pure fear drove her anger, and it…

Apr 23 2020

“My friend’s son has the chickenpox. So I’m taking my kids over to her house for a playdate.” Horrifying as that may sound, there was a time when parents made the effort to expose their offspring to this childhood disease. Some of us parents may remember Pox Parties, and may have even been a part of one. Parental urgency for children to contract the disease rose from the risk of complications that increased with age, and the desire to “get it over with,” among other concerns. Thus the rubbing of elbows with families with a literal pox on their houses….

Apr 03 2020

This morning I woke up, wondering what to write about today. Should I ignore the elephant lurking in every corner of every room? That gray, wrinkled stalker that even follows us outside and causes us to jump to the other side of the road? Do we need to escape this pachydermal pest, even for a few minutes? But then again, it’s an elephant. In. da. house. It’s pretty darn hard to ignore. Especially when it casts its long shadow over every aspect of our lives, even over the mundane task of food procurement. And the elephant’s gotta eat, too. So…

Mar 20 2020

When I was a kid, there was a certain intersection at the edge of town that everyone agreed was dangerous. No traffic light, not even a stop sign. It was only a matter of time, people thought, until tragedy would strike. And they were right. A mother driving her children was killed by another motorist, a teenager who attended the same school as hers. Then, only then, were the stop signs placed. Hardly a new occurrence then, and definitely not a new modus operandi now. It is human nature to be reactive instead of proactive, reassuring ourselves, keeping positive, that…

Mar 12 2020

I know. Yet another terrible joke linking terrible beer with a terrible pandemic. But, like so many families on the brink of spring break, you are probably trying to decide exactly where to drink your ale, on a beach or on your couch. In my last post I mentioned the irony of human nature: how humans ignore what we know and then go off the deep end and wipe the shelves clean of toilet paper (but not canned food?) in fear of what we don’t. Not that we shouldn’t be worried about the coronavirus (COVID-19). We should. But we need…

Mar 05 2020

It’s a stretch. But there is an upside to the growing outbreak of the new strain of coronavirus, Covid-19, that has us on edge, changing spring break plans (or tenatively going ahead with them), making jokes about beer, and the limiting by grocery stores of the purchase of cold-and-flu products. We fear what we do not know, it’s human nature. And we should be concerned about this novel strain of the coronavirus. As of this writing,* COVID-19 has a two to 3.4 percent fatality rate (2 to 3.4 in 100 people afflicted). The virus can incubate for up to 2…

Let That Sh–t Go: Finding Time and Happiness

Feb 27 2020

“…But that’s when we’re happiest, and that’s when we’re at our best. When we have time to do those…things that we like to do.” ~Megan Mullally, in her book with husband Nick Offerman, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told. Before I get into it, I’m gonna give a shout-out to my husband. He did a TED talk on rethinking happiness: instead of basing happiness on attaining success, my husband lays out the path to happiness by living our values. In short, do what you love and the rest will follow…whether what you love is a new job or if doing…

Feb 20 2020

I recently failed at something. And I failed BIG. As in, I lost not only valuable time and plenty of money but when I threw in the towel I lost some new friends as well. Talk about a learning experience. So you could say I have some regrets. But one thing I don’t regret is trying something new. And I don’t regret attempting an endeavor that was totally out of my character. Over time I have used products sold by MLM-structured businesses and been very happy. But never, EVER, did I think I’d want to start up my own biz…

Feb 13 2020

I remember the first time I tried yoga. It wasn’t completely of free will. Up until that morning, I thought yoga and its buddy, pilates, where some kind of granola-y form of useless exercise. Like Lamaze breathing during labor: it sounds good but doesn’t do a damn thing. (At least that was my experience…) But then my parenting group invited an exercise instructor to give us an intro to yoga. Given it was a small group of friends, and I wasn’t going to miss my favorite social hour just because I was skeptical of yoga, I took my place on…

Nov 21 2018

Back in January I began a series “10 Ways to Live an Extraordinary Life” based on a list my son brought home from art camp. I would have loved to know how this “Extraordinary” list, from bemorewithless.com, was incorporated into camp but my tight-lipped boy, true-to-form, wasn’t forthcoming. So I had to find my own inspiration to use these bits of sage advice in my own life. Each month, January through October of 2018, I devoted time to exploring a tenet of living an extraordinary life and then blogged about my journey. Here’s a recap of what I learned: The…

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