Showing posts with label mothers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mothers. Show all posts
Sunday, May 07, 2017

Happy birthday, Anna Marie Hett Shay. I miss you.

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Happy birthday to my mom, Anna Marie Hett Shay, who would have been 91 today. Unfortunately, she died from ovarian cancer at 59 in 1986, a...
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Monday, June 04, 2012

Happy Mama Conference in N.C. for mothers of kids with real, but invisible, brain-based disabilities

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This sounds like a fabulous retreat for mothers (and possibly fathers) of kids with ADHD, OCD, SPD, and so on. From the "Easy to Love b...
Monday, April 02, 2012

Easy to Love but Hard to Raise: "You are not alone"

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One of my essays, "The Great Third Grade AIDS Scare," is in this anthology. The overall message of the book and the blog and all...
Sunday, April 01, 2012

How one small event can put things in perspective

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Yesterday I was reminded of life’s important moments. Chris and I attended a christening at the First United Methodist Church. Katherine M...
Sunday, May 08, 2011

My Mom was a Democrat even when she voted Republican

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I wonder who my mother would vote for in 2012 if she were still alive. It's Mother's Day today. I've spent 25 of them without ...
Monday, October 11, 2010

After the election, Democrats will make great pets

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You learn lots of things while walking Cheyenne neighborhoods for your favorite Democratic Party candidates. I did that on Saturday as I ...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

"The Disappeared" still haunt us

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Nothing prepares you for the exhibition currently at the University of Wyoming Art Museum. "The Disappeared/ Los Desaparecidos" b...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

A weekend with Monty Python

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Yesterday we felt like watching movies, so went down to the Laramie County Public Library to scan the shelves. Movie-renting is a challenge ...