Beautifully Mixed by Donna Scrafano As a young social worker, in the 1980s, I had the grand opportunity to work with a wonderful psychologist. She taught me many valuable lessons. One thing she said continues to resonate in my mind: “God made mixed children extra beautiful because he knew the special challenges they would face.” Read more
Top 10 Things to Do with Dad on Father’s Day – Pre/Post COVID by Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. Father’s Day is right around the corner. What will you do to honor Dad on June 16th? Here are my top 10 ideas that I think any Father would love! 1. Visit with Dad. Whether it’s a Read more
Not a Traditional Father’s Day Gift by Christina Fain As I’m scrolling through the Amazon “Father’s Day Gift Guide,” I can feel the anxiety rise in my chest. It’s time to shop for the dads in my family. While I love them all dearly, I am never able to find the perfect gift. This year Read more
Helicopter Daughter by Christina Fain After some initial testing, my dad found out that the suspicious spot on his neck was indeed cancerous and that the cancer had spread to his lungs. He was alone when he received this news. As upset as he was, he took the time to type out a family group Read more
Garden Memories By Lucy E.M. Black We are now living in our third house, having moved from our starter home to a sprawling farmhouse and now finally to this one, a downsized version closer to services, where we intend to grow older and creakier. In each of these houses, I planted a garden. I say Read more
Bottles & Books by Christina Fain One day during our state’s stay-at-home order, I realized I had been on social media all day. Not just a little bit but all day. My brain became filled with angst, negativity, and downright sadness. Reading headlines and trolling comments made anxiety flare and let fear set in. I Read more
Multi-Generation Isolation Activities by Lynn Campbell When there are three generations living in one household, it’s always a challenge to keep everyone occupied. The toddler can’t play board games, and it’s hard to pry the older kids off of their cell phones. Adults are often busy cooking and cleaning. Grandparents and the littlest ones all Read more
Windows 10, Autocorrect, & COVID-19 by Lucy E.M. Black When I first learned to type a letter in the Commercial Studies room at high school, we used manual typewriters and little strips of white powder-coated correction tape to fix our errors. We backspaced over the word, held the tape next to the typed page to Read more
Isolation by Donna L. Scrafano According to Merriam-Webster’s on-line dictionary, “isolation” is “the state of being in a place or situation that is separate from others; the condition of being isolated; the act of separating something from other things; the act of isolating something.” Thanks to the coronavirus, isolation has become part of our society’s Read more
Grief – A Personal Journey By Donna L Scrafano My first exposure to grief came on December 3, 1963. That was the day I had lost my maternal grandmother, twenty-three days before my tenth birthday. I was in fifth grade. Eleven days previously on November 22, the nun who taught us at St. Anthony’s parochial Read more
