Sep 2, 2013

No-Labor Day = New Beginnings

(Photo by Loretta Sherwood) It’s Labor Day today.  On Labor Day we aren’t supposed to labor at all.  It’s time to slack off as a tribute to the last day of summer and the beginning...
Aug 28, 2013

Here’s to Milton Hershey!

  Have you ever heard the story of Milton Hershey?  Prior to visiting there last week, I never knew anything about him and didn’t even know his name.  What an amazing visionary and inspir...
Aug 25, 2013

Hershey, the Sweetest Place on Earth

Hershey really is a sweet place, and we brought home bags full of chocolate to prove it!  Never fear, we had plenty of chocolate there, too. In fact, I have that post-Halloween candy overload feeling...
Aug 19, 2013

They Ran With Joy

  We always hear about the bad teenagers in the news, the troublemakers who give teenagers a bad rap.  Well, here is a story of some exemplary ones, amazingly kind and thoughtful high school kid...
Aug 17, 2013

"The Decadent Fun Paradox"

  Have you ever experienced the “Decadent Fun Paradox?”  Perhaps you have and didn’t realize it! This is from the latest issue of Robious Corridor Magazine, the August/Septemb...
Aug 15, 2013

It’s Time to "Go Ape!"

Tap into your inner ape at “Go Ape!”  Here is the latest and greatest from the August Richmond Parents Monthly. Go Ape,” Page 1 “Go Ape,” Page 2 It’s the best pla...
Aug 9, 2013

Remembering Joy

As I wrote in my previous post, my dear friends’ 14-year-old daughter Joy passed away a week ago.    So say it was unexpected is the understatement of the century.  She was about to start hig...
Aug 3, 2013

Ode to Joy

  If anything, life is so unpredictable.  It was such an incredibly great day until finding out about sweet Joy.  She died yesterday at age 14 after the first day of cross country practice for ...
Jul 29, 2013

Long Live the Iron Kitty!

  Poor Louise.   The other day she had a strange fresh cut on her tummy, so Sam and I had to take her into the vet, much to all of our chagrins!  She is Sweet 16 which translates to being a 100...
Jul 27, 2013

The "Newseum," Where the News Is News

  Have you ever been to the Newseum?  It’s on Pennsylvania Avenue in DC, right by the Mall.  I hadn’t until yesterday.  While it was embarrassing to admit I hadn’t, now I don...