April is Autism Awareness Month, and when the folks at NBC Channel 12 called to ask if I would help them raise awareness, of course I said, “Yes.” I began thinking about Autism Awareness Month and wondered who decided we needed one. Isn’t everybody aware of autism? The startling reality is, according to the CDC that 1 […]
When one of the Facebook parents sent me the following video clip, she was careful to say, “watch it to the end. You’ll never guess that it’s a commercial selling something.” And so I watched… all the way to the end. SPOILER alert, if you haven’t clicked the start button. Go ahead and do it […]
I’ve been working on an article for Richmond Family Magazine and looking forward to the warm spring weather. I grew up in a big family, and one of the worst things you could do as a kid in our house was to wake the baby. Now that I’m a mother, I totally get that. You […]
There’s a lot of media attention these last few weeks about measles and vaccines, and I’ve been thinking about a delightful, little three year old who is going to Disney. (He’s fully vaccinated and recovered from a mild URI if you’re wondering about sitting next to him on the plane…)
An apple a day. Is NOT Enough. Listen up boys and girls, Moms and Dads, teens and tweens. You are NOT really hearing me. Listening and hearing, ya know? Because, well… Mr. Mali says Health is not a one semester class you take in Middle School, and he says it more beautifully than I ever […]
I wish I had THE magic power to slow time, to stretch it a little in order to have just a wee bit more of those magical minutes I love so much this time of year. There is nothing I love more than the excitement of children around the holidays, and I’d spend each extra […]