You don’t see this every day? How often does your 8th grader come home and say he was the first one to hug his teacher on her first day back to school? Jasper and a friend came home from school today and were so excited that their teacher was back in the classroom (after having taken…
One of the ways to honor someone is to put together a tribute album to them – for a birthday, for retirement, for a special occasion, etc. One of the best presents I ever received was a photo collage of pictures from college until now. That took a lot of time to go back through…
I got a (wake up) call today from Kaiser saying it’s time to come in for a mammogram. The recorded message went on about the importance of early detection and how effective mammograms are as an early breast cancer detection method. I know there are other less invasive methods of getting screened, but those aren’t…
I’ve been to Washington DC many times – mostly for work. In fact, I went back and forth to DC for the construction of our DC office starting in 2005 and it wasn’t until last summer that I actually left the office and walked the two blocks to check out the white house. How pathetic…