Best Parents

Hey Mom, is "mom stress"getting to you? It is hard to believe that still so many people think that, "moms don't have any thing to do - ha ha - so they can't possible be stressed. It must be in their heads!" Those people have never had children or tried to run a household and have a job too. While raising children and having a home are real joys they can also result in some stressful times. Here are some of the most common stressors for moms and some things you can do about them. Read more [...]

My father should have known better. He was a college graduate, a Army veteran of strategic bombing missions over Japan in 1945, and by the time I was old enough to understand what other people were saying to me about him, a respected figure in our community. I have distinct memories, corroborated by my elders when I was old enough to ask about them, of having been taken at the age of five for special intelligence testing at Boston University, that he knew there was something out of the ordinary about Read more [...]