What You Need to Know About ADD/ADHD
May is Mental Health Awareness month and Mother’s Day, so it seemed to me the best time to put down on paper the […]
Category: Teens
Gold Mom’s Choice Award for Leaving Kent State
I’m happy to report that Leaving Kent State has been chosen for a Gold label designation in the Mom’s Choice Awards. You […]
Leaving Kent State Wins Gold
I’m feeling a little Olympic today, as yesterday it was announced that Leaving Kent State has won a 2017 Moonbeam Children’s Award Gold […]
Young Adult Romance – Is the Crush Over?
YA Romance– For several years now, I’ve been hearing a lot of chatter about YA romance, as if the whole idea of […]
Mother’s Day 2017
Our children take us places we can’t envision when they are a bundle of cells commingling with our own. When we feel […]
The Art of Radical Acceptance
Radical acceptance is the psychological term for learning to live with sorrow we cannot change. It’s not a new concept, and it’s […]
My Latest Review
Thanks to Isla Mcketta, I have a new review which you may check out here. When I was writing LKS, I was really struck […]
The Face of Institutional Racism
The other day, my high school freshman son had a lacrosse game for school. My white son goes to an independent college […]
The Art of Letting Go
I’ve never been a big fan of change. Maybe because I was never very goal oriented, at least not in the sweeping […]
I’m Not Sure Where November Went
The only thing I am sure of is that it’s long gone. It’s been a kind of whirl wind month for me. […]