Tuesdays…

November 5, 2013, 7:59 pm

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It’s just Tuesday. No one ever cares about Tuesday, really. As far as the week goes, Tuesday is pretty much a wash, a blip, a get-through day. It doesn’t have the pain of Monday, the snark of Wednesday, the fake college-student-created-night-off of Thursday, the long-awaited smooth of Friday or the relaxing dream that is the […]

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What’s better than an Elf on the Shelf? Traditions from the heart.

December 10, 2013, 9:04 am

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When the hugely popular Elf on the Shelf hit the, er, shelves all those years ago, my kids started bugging me to get one for our house. I was — and have remained — firm in my refusal. Hey, I have no problem with YOU having one. Go for it! It’s just…well, the rosy-cheeked critter isn’t […]

My dad died. And I’m still waiting to cry for real.

July 15, 2014, 1:36 pm

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I didn’t cry very much at the funeral. I didn’t cry very much in the days before, either, but that was due to busyness. There were plans to make, flowers to choose, a Mass to plan, a scurry to find an organist to replace the one the church has a contract with but I haven’t […]

This was the Summer Dad Died, and it’s over.

September 1, 2014, 8:24 pm

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Tomorrow school starts and no matter the official calendar, summer is over. It wasn’t the best summer for me, for my siblings, my mom, my family. Not by a long shot. Not in the vicinity of any kind of long shot. But summer happened, and I have four kids, and despite the awfulness that will […]

On advocating for early cancer detection — no matter what your trusted doctor says. SPEAK. UP.

March 12, 2015, 8:31 pm

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I was just thinking about all the people in the last year, all of these loved ones who died very shortly after abrupt end-stage cancer diagnoses. It has been awful. Not a single cancer was a so-called “lifestyle cancer” (like lung, which too often is NOT from smoking). But many might have been treatable with earlier […]

Summer Solution: The “I’m Bored” Jar and This Mom’s Attempt to Curb Her Kids’ Addiction to Electronics

June 29, 2015, 3:53 pm

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I’ll admit it. In the past six months or so I became very slackish about monitoring my kids’ use of electronics. Chalk it up to the soul-crushing winter we had in the Boston area, when around 7 feet of snow was dumped on us in a few weeks’ time, maybe, the never-ending days with no […]

Beyond Folklore — When a 13 Year Old Googles Family History

August 9, 2015, 7:16 pm

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It never occurred to me that any of my kids would reach beyond family folklore to learn about their history, but I guess in this age of technology and immediacy it was inevitable. This past weekend, Mitzi Googled her great-grandfather, Tony Mottola, and printed out about 2 dozen pages of condolences and comments from a […]

Back-to-school brings scissors, pencils, cliques, and other sharp things

August 13, 2015, 7:22 pm

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It’s mid-August, finally, and many schools in our country are back in session. In my neck of the woods, however, we still have a month to go before that first bell. There are beaches to visit, day trips to take, ice cream to scoop, camp-outs to plan, and all kinds of lazy days spread before […]

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On Special Needs Advocacy, Diabetes, and Ignorance

May 1, 2016, 9:40 am

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Wow, I haven’t blogged in quite a while. So much has been going on that I haven’t kept up with it all. I’ve spent much of my time in the last couple of months helping my husband with his campaign for re-election our town’s School Committee, on which he served for the past six years. […]

Don’t Repeal the Affordable Care Act! Lifesaving Medicine Should Not Depend on Wealth. (a plea to Republicans to choose lives over politics…)

January 13, 2017, 5:46 pm

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Yesterday I picked up Mitzi at the end of an afternoon with friends. In the car, while she snapchatted, I was listening to NPR as they reported on the efforts by the President-elect and the Republican party to repeal the ACA. I didn’t know she was listening until we got home and she made me keep […]