Moms Always Share…:) by Ali Skylar


CHARACTERS: Mom, Son SETTING: A mom and son at college are texting each other. Mom:  Hey, start thinking about what you want to get with the couple of million dollars I’m going to give you when I win the $700 million powerball drawing tonight! Son:  You bought a ticket? Mom: Yep Son: Since when do you ...

Evolving From The “Me” Into The “Us” Generation by Ali Skylar


A couple of weeks ago when we got hit with 35 inches of snow and then later that week about another 8 inches or so, I was out there with my husband shoveling.  And I was wishing that my hulky 22 year old son, living on his own, was still ...

Another Perspective On Helping Our Kids Make Friends – by Ali Skylar


The other day I was talking to a mom who is just incredibly overwhelmed helping her two young teenage boys figure out not just how to do school online, but how to create friendships online. As many parents know, making and keeping friends is probably one of the biggest challenges our ...

What Christmas Was Like Because My Mom Worked by Pamela Francis


Each year about this time the radio station I listen to -- online (I wouldn't touch regular radio with a ten-foot pre-lit LED Douglas fir) -- has folks like the late Dr. Wayne Dyer and other notables from the "new thought ancient wisdom" community recounting their favorite holiday memories from ...

How Facebook robbed me of my past…! by Pamela Francis


Social media has done what a good publicist would get paid to: make us all look good – better than we are. Make our lives look more glamorous. Cheat the tiny dive in the strip mall to appear as though it were the most velvet-ropest joint of all velvet-roped joints ...