Month: June 2008
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Teenage farm hands (and younger)
My parents practiced hands-off parenting. While my mother helped my dad with the evening milking on the family dairy farm, she would look across the yard into the mirror on the wall behind the piano in the living room. She readily saw the image of any child sitting at the old upright piano. She always…
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Off to the Babylonian University without parents
Such a celebration of feelings we experience watching our children graduate from 12 years of schooling, ready to leave home, to go to college, to tackle life on their own. The diploma and their age declare our sweet babies have grown-up prepared to handle life. And they will do just that – unless they have…
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This car will just have to do
For many, many years, my friend has prepared a homemade Sunday dinner as her gift of love for her family. The list of possible guests has grown from children to grandchildren and now great-grandchildren. Not all can make it every week. Some live farther away than others, but every week, she prepares a family dinner…
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Now that scared me!
I don’t scare easily. In grade school, I heard absolutely dreadful things would happen if this or that person received the national nod to be our president. Horrors! If that man was elected, we would have to go to school on Saturday! The man won – we never had school on Saturday. Shows with contestants…