Dear Todd (We have a Teenager)

January 31st, 2017 Dear Todd, These are facinating times. To say the least. And it's hard to teach the kids the right message sometimes. I can only imagine the various conversations between spouses around the country and our world.  And what is interesting, and I could be wrong, is that I imagine that all the conversations in other countries involve spouses on the same page. Agreeing with each other.  And homes all on the same page. Here, in the US, there are mixtures of the Sneetches with "stars upon thars" and the ones without.  And there are even households with one "Star-Bellied Sneetch" and "One Non-Star Sneetch."  Friends who had no idea they didn't have a star on their belly until this whole political shakedown. As for me I believe in the potential of all Sneetches to be amazing---with or without Stars. There are a lot of us, I think that believe this.  So why are we here? In this mess?  And why do some of us feel the need to prote...

January 22nd, 2017 Dear Todd, I am longing to communicate and have never felt so stifled by the deconstruction of language. So...I'm gonna apologize first as I begin to write without it.... Firstly...I'm ubertastically overwhelmed and in awe of the marches that took place around the world standing up for what people want for their/our country.  Restores faith in mankind. GRATEFUL FOR WHERE WE LIVE AND THE OTHER COUNTRIES THAT UNITED. On a smaller, more intimate scale, I'm also greatfullytastic about the moment in which Viggo Mortensen edjumacated our two youngest on the topic of sex ed.  True story.  It was a brief moment in the movie Captain Fantastic when one of his kid's asks and he answers (just as our two youngest enter the room) "The boy puts his penis in the girl's vagina and sperm comes out and fertilizes an egg and that is how babies are made." Bigly informative. Our children's eyeballs stretched out beyond the surface of their face...