I am participating in #Trust30 which is an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Today’s prompt, on top of being a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, is imagining you have 15 minutes to live. 15 minutes? This type of timeline makes me think of Joplin right now.… Continue reading Minutes to Live
As I said yesterday, childhood obesity is an issue in the United States. Children from toddlers to teens spend too much time being sedentary. To me, as a parent, the big question is how do we measure who is and isn’t obese or even overweight as that may lead to obesity. I have some large… Continue reading How do we measure childhood obesity?
Childhood obesity is an issue in the United States. Children from toddlers to teens spend too much time being sedentary. I don’t recall every coming home from high school with six hours of homework and only, when deducting time for family dinner, five hours until a reasonable bedtime. I remember as a grade school student… Continue reading How much is too much?
Back in the second week of April, my youngest – the only one still in school – had his spring break. This break was at an odd time – not the week before or the week after Easter but two weeks prior. The timing was inconsequential as we were not traveling but the youngest was.… Continue reading School Vacation
Sitting on a school board in New York State, I know that concussions in youth sports are a hot topic at present. Legislation has been introduced into the legislature that will detail how a student will rehabilitate from a concussion, including believing a concussion to be present whether diagnosed or not. This legislation, which could… Continue reading Concussions
Last Saturday, I spent the entire day on the campus of SUNY-Oneonta. I do not live all that close to Oneonta. It is approximately an 80 mile drive one way. The child known as Number Five does attend the college, though, and is in several performance groups. Last year’s Day of Jazz was held in… Continue reading Day of Jazz – SUNY Oneonta
For those of you who do not know, I love hockey. I have managed, along with going to a college that has two ice rinks and only approximately 2,500 students, to pass this love onto my oldest daughter. Last night, as I stood to clap for the home team as they made the playoffs for… Continue reading Hockey
Back in the day – and this will date me, girls took home ec in junior high and high school and boys took shop. Now, I am not so old that there were not a few boys in home ec and a few girls, like myself, in shop. Fast forward to my own children and… Continue reading Home Ec – Book Review
Trips, for me, tend to be big photo opportunities. I did not realize before heading south to Myrtle Beach that there had been a huge air base there for years. As is the case with many municipalities that had former military bases, Myrtle Beach has put together a small park to honor those who once… Continue reading One Last Look at Myrtle Beach
I did spend a bit of time – most of Sunday – playing tourist in Myrtle Beach. The marathon had not totally killed my legs. I could walk around and walk I did.
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