via Daily Prompt: Radiant Looking at the radiant smile of that mischievous grin reaches into my old soul, recreating a long forgotten maternal love pulsing through me. How can a little whirligig of a human capture the hearts of everyone in the family, young and old, married and single? A grandchild makes fools of us…
Category: Family and Friends
My Trip to Austin
Last summer my son and his wife suggested we might want to accompany his family to Austin. I have never been there so my husband and I excitedly said yes and we would be HAPPY to help with their two-year old. We just got back yesterday and this is the only view we got of Austin…
Particular
via Daily Prompt: Particular Growing up in an emotionally chaotic environment pushes many otherwise healthy children to develop coping skills, keeping the fears of adult explosive displays of temper boxed in a cylinder rolling through their lives but moving past as a fall leaf tumbling along the sidewalk. The path is available to walk leaving…
Pledge to Flag
This little boy captures one of the faces of America…he doesn’t care about diversity, FAKE news, religious differences, coastal politics. He is an American !
A Beautiful Planet
Considering the weather, drizzly and cloudy, and the age of my grandson, five rambunctious years old, the dreaded “what do we do today?” hung heavy in the moist and dismal air the morning we sat bored, on the well-worn couch in the living room of my working daughter, as we contemplated the long day ahead. …
Life with a Dog
“The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn’t pose. He isn’t aware of the camera.” Patrick Demarchelier The adorable pulchritude of a furry golden retriever regally relaxed in the chair, knowingly staring into the lens with an air of passionate sincerity, ears forward, gazing innocently with coal-black pools of endearment. In the fullness of…
Fall Visitors at the Beach
Family visitors in the cooler autumn season require creative entertainment options such as the historic Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum, built in 1891 and one of the of the oldest Ocean City buildings. With dual missions to prevent ship disasters on the shoals and rescue the ship-wrecked during the foul weather from November to April…
Off They Go
Today is the beginning of a special adventure for many kindergarteners. And, for over 62 years, it has not changed. This is the booklet my parents saved from my first year in public school. Entitled “A Handbook for Parents of Beginning Pupils” and includes advice for families to assist in adjusting to “the first lap…
If worried about measles you should be terrified of rubella
The discussions in the past decade about the dangers of vaccines and the risk of autism have been particularly narrow. Not that autism is not a life changing diagnosis for a family. It is – and no one disputes the lifelong impact. However, the original “false” science that gave rise to these concerns has been…
The Club Med Experience, Relaxing in San Salvador, Bahamas
Club Med…The name conjures up beads exchanged for drinking, wild beach parties and fun for the young. Skimpy bikinis and sexy outfits. Club Méditerranée, commonly known as Club Med, is a French collection of vacation resorts found in many parts of the world. Club Med was started in 1950. Vacations come with expectations and often…
Life Gets Better 