It is not like I did not see it coming. When my oldest son was but 10 days old and we were dining in our favorite Virginia-Highlands trattoria, a stranger came up to us and said, “these are the best days, when they are small and you still have some control”. I thought that man […]
With the impending day approaching, I knew I had to take action. For twenty-four years, I have had a child at home to love, feed, and worry about, as well as not be able to sleep until I heard the key in the door, regardless of the time. While many count down the days to […]
I thought I had it all figured out back in the mid-1980s when my first son was born. I believed the way boys acted was completely a result of society and how they were raised. All I needed to do was provide my son with a variety of boy and girl toys, raise him to […]
There are many times in our lives marked to acknowledge an important step forward in our growth and development. Once a baby walks, they are officially known as a toddler, you become a teenager after the age of twelve and legally an adult at age eighteen. Fortunately, I transitioned well through these stages, but was […]
