When you live in the Bay Area, and your whole state is up in flames and the country, too, but more figuratively than literally, it can be hard to find what you can be grateful for. I’ve come to believe it’s an important practice, though, even as negativity, doom and gloom nip at your heels….
Tag: teenagers
The Day After . . .
It’s actually “the day after the day after” because we had two Thanksgivings: one where we brought a honey-baked ham and all the fixings to my elderly inlaws (because ham was much easier to transport than turkey) and then the other, yesterday, when we roasted a turkey and made Greek stuffing for the teenagers who…
The day before you leave is the longest journey (Write Every Day, 25)
We leave tomorrow for a week in Hawaii and I’ve been trying to prepare myself for the insanity of today, the day before, but there really is no way to prepare. Today is the longest journey. Of course there is the packing . . . but that isn’t all of it. There are the animals:…
College Readiness: Sometimes it takes a little push.
I hear stories of kids chomping at the bit to get away from home, running to college as if their lives depend on it. Kids who are simply bubbling with excitement and parents who are struggling to let go. So much is written about parents who are worried about letting go but whose kids…
Barbara Ganias Comstock 