Archive for June, 2018
Storytelling By Mothers by Maureen Eich VanWalleghan
June 30th, 2018
Today, I watched First They Killed My Father, from director Angelina Jolie shot from the perspective of a five-year-old child experiencing personally the decimation of her family in Cambodia during the rise of the Khmer Rouge. Last night’s selection found me watching Bridget Jones’s Baby directed by Sharon Maguire. These ...
A True Story, When My Children Were Forcibly Taken Away From Me by Wendy Sue Noah
June 27th, 2018
It started out harmless, so it seemed. My children’s father, Jerry (name changed), came home from the hospital with very high blood pressure and was feeling fatigued. We just had our fifth child, and due to the fact that I was finally standing up to him, for myself and our ...
“The Property” Show Review by Andrea Santo Felcone
June 26th, 2018
The framework of the play, “The Property,” is intriguing. A woman is struggling to give her teenage son a leg up in society so she reaches out to her ex-husband (a wealthy businessman) to find a job for her floundering son. (The ex-husband had abandoned her son when he was ...
Picture Perfect Shots of Your Kids
June 25th, 2018
Snapping great photos of your kids can be tricky, and is likely to try your patience. Generally kids make for uncooperative models and tend to ignore most directions or do their utmost to assume unnatural poses. The good news is that if you know what to do there are several ways ...
The Perfect Parent is a Myth by Matt Coyne, author, MAN vs. BABY (Book Excerpt)
June 25th, 2018
For most people, I think it’s the point at which you start ignoring advice and opinions and start trusting your instincts that you begin to feel like you are getting the hang of this parenting stuff. But that doesn’t mean you suddenly have all the answers. Christ, it doesn’t even mean ...
This is Modern Art: Show Review by Sara Moss
June 21st, 2018
Our community, though fairly accepting, still maintains bigotry under its surface, and art is not immune to this bigotry. “This Is Modern Art,” produced by Blessed Unrest at Next Door @NYTW, is a true tale of a trio of graffiti writers, who tagged a low outside wall at the Art Institute ...
Sleep Deprivation: The Upside by Andrea Santo Felcone
June 20th, 2018
This past weekend’s Father’s Day festivities included space for “nap time” for my husband…. He’s a great napper, wakes up refreshed, revived, and happy. He comes from a long line of nappers. I remember one time, fairly early into our married life, spending an afternoon at my in-laws, where my ...
FIRST LOVE: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
June 18th, 2018
[caption id="attachment_27212" align="alignleft" width="300"] (photo credit: Monique Carboni)[/caption] I don't usually want for words, whether written or verbal....but this show left me speechless....and not in a good way. It was honestly a painful theatrical experience, despite the valiant acting efforts of the two seasoned leads. My friend, who accompanied me, often reminds me ...
Now Say This by Heather Turgeon, MFT, and Julie Wright, MFT (Book Excerpt)
June 15th, 2018
Health and Development The research on how screens relate to health and development is complex. We can’t lump all screens together (watching a movie is different from building a world in an interactive game, which is different from blasting zombies with a console). What kids are watching, for how long, at ...
Scattered Pictures of the Smiles We Left Behind by Sharon O’Donnell
June 9th, 2018
As Father's Day approaches, I've been going through the old 8mm films and VHS tapes that my dad has taken of family and friends over the years. We are so blessed that he was ahead of the game when he bought that 8mm camera with the big bright lights on ...
