Big Sisters are the Crab Grass on the Lawn of Life

When my sister and I were young, we held dance recitals in our basement.  Together with friends we would set up a line of metal folding chairs and string up an old sheet to use as a curtain.  We’d fetch the battery operated tape recorder and don old dance costumes or plain, pink leotards; tap…

O Brother where art thou?

I made the right sacrificial offering to the Parental Karma Gods That Be when my boys were young.  Neither boy was a biter, a pusher, a smacker.  There was rarely a sandbox altercation to break up and even temper tantrums, the proper ones where you feel the eye of every adult burning into your soul…