Just in my casual reading this weekend, I came across two articles dealing with the subject of anxiety, Madeline Levine’s “Raising Successful Children” and Shaun Groves’s “Parenting A Child with Anxiety.” They were both attractive articles to me because I have spent a good bit of my life worrying. In fact, when I was aContinue reading “Models Monday: Fear and Dread”
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Models Monday: Community Property or On Sharing
So if you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I have a three-year-old son. What you may not know is that I didn’t grow-up with siblings and so having my son has been the first time that I’ve had any sustained time with children. My experience of sending my son to whatContinue reading “Models Monday: Community Property or On Sharing”
Models Monday: Taking Another Look at What You Have
I don’t know when it happened, but it’s been several months since I decided to like the material things in my life. I decided that I wasn’t going to look past them to those better things that existed after I washed that dress and it began to fade or even longed for the things thatContinue reading “Models Monday: Taking Another Look at What You Have”
Models Monday: Responses to People Who Don’t Like You
When I was in grade school I told my mother that a teacher did not like me. “So,” my mother responded. “Not everyone’s going to.” Later I learned that my mother was at least concerned that I wasn’t being mistreated when she told me of her conference with this very teacher upon collecting my reportContinue reading “Models Monday: Responses to People Who Don’t Like You”
Reading with my Father: Slim’s Table Interlude (on Penn State)
In light of former federal judge and director of the F.B.I. Louis J. Freeh’s investigation into the Penn State scandal and the release of the findings, I decided to re-post my thoughts on the matter. I’ll be curious to read your reaction to my piece given these findings. Maybe Mitch Duneier’s description of Bart’s death andContinue reading “Reading with my Father: Slim’s Table Interlude (on Penn State)”
Father’s Day Suite: Joe Paterno and Stories of Fatherhood
In light of former federal judge and director of the F.B.I. Louis J. Freeh’s investigation into the Penn State scandal and the release of the findings, I decided to re-post my thoughts on the matter. I’ll be curious to read your reaction to my piece given these findings. Fatherhood and fathering serve as strong themesContinue reading “Father’s Day Suite: Joe Paterno and Stories of Fatherhood”
Models Monday: Observing the Country Mouse
For some time now I’ve been ruminating on Aesop’s fable “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.” On the surface, the story tells of two mice-one from a rural environment and one from an urban environment-who interact with one another inside the home territories of the other over a meal. In Jerry Pinkney’s version ofContinue reading “Models Monday: Observing the Country Mouse”
Models Monday: Expanding the Meaning of Success
I finished reading David Halberstam’s wonderful book, The Children, late Saturday night. As I read, I recorded recurring terms used in discussing the principle subjects involved in the Nashville sit-ins when they first entered the Movement in the 1960s. My list includes the following terms: commitment, conscious, inner, worthy, serious, intellectual, serious intellectual, mutual, respect,Continue reading “Models Monday: Expanding the Meaning of Success”
Models Monday: One Approach to Paying Medical Bills
I have sarcoidosis, a disease that causes immune system cells to cluster to form lumps in various organs in the body, and it has been active for a little over three years. I’ve gone in and out of remission but currently I’m in an active phase. I have a wonderful rheumatologist who began treating theContinue reading “Models Monday: One Approach to Paying Medical Bills”
Father’s Day Suite: Portraits of Men
What was most striking to me about the portrait that my son made in Play School as a Father’s Day gift for my husband was the green tie. Miles’s teacher had asked us to bring in a small picture of my husband that would be used for making a separate gift, and in that picture,Continue reading “Father’s Day Suite: Portraits of Men”
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