Archive for the ‘family’ Category

• Don’t tune this message out!

  Thursday, September 30th, 2010

  The television has become a constant backdrop to our busy lives. Most of us have learned to only snap to attention when key words alert us to information we want to watch. This year like so many others, public service messages are encouraging us to get our flu shots. But this year there has been [...]

• Wanting to be a mom doesn’t mean you should be one

  Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

  I was raised with a strong sense of responsibility and developed a deep maternal instinct. These two virtues can cause me to grind my back molars down to nubs when I witness people that lack either of the two virtues. After reading today’s Parade section about a young woman who desired to become a mother [...]

• Wrong number rings up a long distance friendship

  Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

  Five years ago I suffered a stroke which has left me with some instability upon walking and a glitch in my memory hard drive. My once excellent memory now infrequently has me transposing numbers thus I sometimes dial the wrong number when making a phone call. While trying to call my sister-in-law, I have reached [...]

• Motherhood is not for the weak at heart

  Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

  A twenty-nine year old South Carolina women, mother of two young kids, killed them because she became frustrated with being a mother. Duh   This women who had two small children close in age and no job, was at her wits end. She had just had a fight with her mother who was trying for [...]

• Some days just make you smile

  Sunday, August 8th, 2010

  Living in this time of economic instability and shooting of innocent people, we need a day that puts a smile on our faces. I had such a day recently. It may not be important to anyone else but me but thought I would share it with you.   Being over sixty, most of the people [...]