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Back in the day, television stations often showed some type of lunchtime show for kids with cartoons and shenanigans. It was especially common practice in larger cities, where kids walked…

As I say many times per day, we have really forgotten how to love each other in this day and age. Acceptance and tolerance are preached all the time, but…

One of my pet peeves has to be bossy folks. I’m pretty sure I’ve written about these folks before.   There are times when I can laugh and dismiss such…

My boys, ages 23 and 21, are both adults and on their own.  When they were little, they both watched “Blue’s Clues.” It was a show that had lots of…

People tend to talk about “end times” when the world appears to be in a “state.”   It’s been talked about throughout history. I’m sure it was talked about in…

In 1972, my favorite television show was Scooby Doo. My main concern in life was learning all of the sounds that the inflatable letter people were teaching us in Mrs.…

Michelle and I watched a really funny Susan Sarandon movie the other night. It was called “The Meddler” and was all about a 60-something mother who got involved in everyone’s…

As I begin my 32nd year of teaching school, I often shift my attention from the long list of “to do’s” and try to experience the joy of kids around…

Sometimes you get some great advice. For me, it came in the form of a book called “Your Inner Child of the Past” by W. Hugh Missildine.  The advice and…

During the lockdown last spring, we were like a lot of families – we cooked and ate too much, we thought of home projects to do, we bought a dog,…