Parenting

When we are hurting, children and adults want to hug and hold.  When someone dies, it is not surprising that all of us may find a favorite stuffed animal to snuggle close that somehow reminds of what seems fleeting—that love is endless and timeless.  This is the message that Bare Hearts, a new business...
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As we move into the Mother’s Day weekend, we focus on the table of our youth. The tireless work of nourishing their children has provided us with memories our moms from a PBJ in the lunchbox to fried chicken and biscuits after church. This Friday’s lunch suggestions appeals to the comfort food lover in...
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Hello Louisville, I have missed you !! How I love thee and thy food, thy people and thy memories I pass every day I am home: The corner of Story and Spring where some uninsured kid pinned me and me dog inside my cute little Honda CRX to the telephone pole on the Northwest...
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Mayor Fischer’s “Give A Day” Week of April 15 – 22 is coming up. Have you scheduled some time to give to someone else as volunteer? It’s hard, or it can be hard to fit it in. Some people I know are natural “givers” and are much better at volunteering their time than I....
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Everybody is basketball crazed but this weather really makes me want to golf. There’s nothing like popping some allergy medicine and hitting the course to be in the great outdoors for a few hours. The opportunity to be outside and unplugged is really the enjoyment I get out of golf. It certainly isn’t my...
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Do you remember the best part of going back to school was getting that new box of crayons! I know school supplies are far from any of our minds except for the occasional replacement folder needed at this time of year. Imagine no crayons, scissors, backpacks, wide ruled paper to begin the process of...
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I was looking through the news trying to find something to get worked up over. I was bummed that the Ravens and 49ers lost yesterday, preventing a Harbaugh vs. Harbaugh Super Bowl and plenty of media stories about their time helping their Dad at Western. There’s the fact that Newt Gingrich might actually be...
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Well, another Louisville fiasco with letting schools out early because we MIGHT get just a sprinkling of snow.  When I was young (save the groans for another time) I remember walking to school almost up to my knees.  This isn’t a ‘pre-depression’ story of a country school.  I’m talking about in the 1960′s, and...
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I was transfixed as the words and voice of sex offender and murderer Cecil New were aired on WHAS 11 last night. It’s not every day you can wander down the psyche of such a monster and I’ll be damned if I didn’t take in the whole thing. Interviewed last year by the now-retired...
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Is anyone out there surprised by the new report from JCPS that found the giant organization is overpaying its administrations, has flawed hiring policies, that nepotism is rampant, and that it needs to trim its staff significantly? I’m not. Like MSD before it, there just seems to be a pervasive attitude by administrators in...
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