Archive for October, 2009
Oct 27, 2009
PARENTS VISIT US IN MANY WAYS
As you know this last weekend was Parent’s Visiting Weekend at Taylor’s college. Now never having been to college as an actual student, and being a Freshman Mom never having been as a mom either, I was not sure what to expect. I did receive plenty of emails from the school informing me of all [...]
Oct 23, 2009
Oct 20, 2009
WHEN THE RELATIONSHIP IS ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP
Most of you reading this are old enough to remember that time when you were dating or perhaps some of you still are, when you got a point in a relationship when the entire dialogue about the relationship was in fact about the relationship. In fact the relationship becomes entirely about the relationship.
Oct 16, 2009
OUT OF PANDORAS BOX SOMETIMES POPS THE TRUTH
First off, count down over no Hermes bag for me. But I this is one I did not want.
Oct 15, 2009
FAMILY SILVER
Most of you who read this are old enough to remember the Iranian Hostage Crisis in the late seventies and the daily countdown telling the world how many days they were in captivity.
Oct 14, 2009
QUOTES ON PARENTING
I was going through some quotes today for my book.
Thought instead of writing anything new I would share them with all of you.
Have a great day!
FRESHMAN MOM
Oct 13, 2009
A HUNDRED YEARS OF MATERNAL MONEY MADNESS
As I said yesterday I am going to focus this week on the high voltage topic of families and money. There is no doubt many freshman moms and kids are struggling with financial issues; questions of all sorts and navigating un-chartered dollar infested waters teaming with giant waves.
Oct 12, 2009
WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES
It’s five forty-seven in the morning and I cannot sleep. I decided better than tossing, turning and fretting my time would be better spent at the keyboard.
I figure I can get in a blog in before my breakfast meeting.
Oct 09, 2009
THREE-DAY WEEKEND
Back in the summer when I got the calendars for both girls I did what I always do, I wrote in my agenda all their holiday breaks parent teacher conference days and three-day weekends.
Oct 08, 2009
THE TEARS OF A CLOWN
I’m writing today to let people know I am not a basket case. I might very well be a case, but certainly not of the basket variety.
Oct 07, 2009
ERASED
I know Freshman Mom has been on hiatus, what with the memorial and blogging about that last week. A few people wrote in yesterday wondering where it was.
Things bumble along in Freshman Land, insights you gain and try and carry on with you from week to week sometimes work and sometimes don’t.
Oct 04, 2009
FRESHMAN MOM REQUESTS
As some of you know I am in the final stages of completing a book for Harper Collins on how fifty is not the new thirty.
