I have always encouraged my daughter, who is a senior at Niagara University and will graduate with a degree in elementary education and a minor in literacy, to stay in the Niagara area and student teach. My theory was that even the “city” school districts in our area are not true inner city school districts. [...]
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City School Districts
Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, tagged niagarafallscityschooldistrict, domesticviolence, schoolresponse on 4 November 2008 | No Comments »
Road Trip!
Posted in Collegiate Sports, Family, Food and Recipes, Just my Thoughts, Sports, tagged familyweekend, niagarauniversity, sunyfredonia on 23 October 2008 | No Comments »
Yes, I am off on a road trip at 7 am tomorrow morning. My kitchen table looks like it is time for a college visit so…
… The soon-to-be 18 year old and his 14 year old brother and I head west along the Southern Tier Expressway tomorrow morning. Initial destination - SUNY-Fredonia. The high school [...]
October Means Family Weekends
Posted in Collegiate Sports, Family, Just my Thoughts, Sports, tagged army, familyweekend, niagarauniversity, trueblue, universityatbuffalo on 18 October 2008 | No Comments »
No, not the kind where the whole family comes into town. October means family weekends at the various colleges my older children attend. That also means - ROAD TRIP!
This weekend is family weekend at the University at Buffalo. My 21 year old son is a student at UB. He is also president of True Blue [...]
Put Yourself First
Posted in Family, Fitness, Just my Thoughts, Religion, tagged faith, Fitness, health, journey, Religion, running on 17 October 2008 | 2 Comments »
I tend to not think of myself as selfish. I am sure, when the boys ask for something and are told I am busy or some other response, they think so. I am not. I just finished reading an article by Rebecca Pratt about putting yourself first.
Pratt hits the nail on the head as she [...]
Voter Suppression by Government?
Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, Politics, tagged absenteeballot, boardofelections, election08, election2008, libraryreferendum, newyorkstate, townofunion, votersuppression on 15 October 2008 | No Comments »
I know we think that title sound preposterous. I would have thought so if I hadn’t just finished reading my local paper. Please bear in mind I have two college-aged children expecting absentee ballots for the election and I live in the Town of Union.
I guess I need to be a bit more truthful. The [...]
Everything I Learned
Posted in Family, Fitness, Just my Thoughts, tagged children, Fitness, health on 14 October 2008 | No Comments »
Remember the essay “Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”? I love that essay! It talks about how all those things we do in kindergarten are needed for life - getting along, sharing, napping.
This morning I opened my email from Sparkpeople.com and found an equally good piece - how we can learn healthy living [...]
The Family Grocery Budget
Posted in Family, Food and Recipes, Just my Thoughts, tagged budgeting, budgetshopping, groceryshopping on 10 October 2008 | No Comments »
My friend Lisa recently wrote a blog entry entitled “no bailout.” No, she wasn’t talking about her views on the recently passed government “rescue” plan, though she could have been. She was talking about tightening the familial belt and surviving the rough times that are already upon us and to come.
Lisa got me thinking how [...]
A Call From College
Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, tagged adultchildren, bthomasgolisano, niagarauniversity on 8 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have received a lot of phone calls from my daughter who is a senior at Niagara University in the four years she has been there.
There was the distraught call her first week at school that I missed and was on the answering machine when I got home from an outing with her younger brothers. [...]
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