Month: January 2007

Sometimes, all it takes is one dedicated soul – a neighbor, a relative, a teacher – to make a big difference for many students. In the biography “The Kids From Nowhere: The Story behind the Arctic Educational Miracle” educator George Guthridge made that difference to a group of rural Eskimo teens living on a blizzard-swept…

Newborns are – well – kind of boring. They sleep, eat, sleep, lay there drunk with milk and dozing off or stare cross-eyed at the world hovering over them. That described my newest grandchild who randomly waved his hands and kicked his feet trying to figure out how to use those appendages. When I visited…

Our New Year’s gathering of the clan in rented condominiums included lots of time with the grandchildren and enough food for two such visits. My husband came with a bundle of ideas and places to go. He buzzed around like a drill sergeant reminding us of the opportunities to see the fantastic, do the unusual…

Toddlers and pre-schoolers burst with enthusiastic interpretations of the world and the words and lessons they hear. My nephew’s wife, agreed to share some unique moments from her oldest child’s year as a three-year-old. Car trips with her only son and his little sisters include listening to “Toddler Bible Songs” on CD. One chorus is…

I know my children will never believe it – not my children with his and her cell phones, land line phones, Internet connections with two or three e-mails accounts apiece, big screen televisions and DVD players. They will not believe it but when their father and I married, we did not have a phone or…