Teens
Half a dozen teens ate Tide Pods. About half a million people tweeted about it. Twenty million believed that half a million kids were eating Tide Pods. Thirty Million posted memes on Facebook about...
View ArticlePlaying the Game – Can’t leave anything to Chance
Playing the Game – Can’t leave anything to Chance Some say life is a game. I don’t believe that is a good message for teens but sometimes, on those stupid frustrating adult days when everything seems...
View ArticleTiny Babes, Good Dogs, and Birthdays
I believe this is the grave of little Willie Adams who died October 23, 1877, age 4 months, 22 days, in Sacramento, California. This little stone touched me so when we visited the cemetery in 2012 –...
View ArticleThinking Back on Being A Parent
When I started writing this blog I was dealing with Middle School and summer camp. Now I’m helping my kids navigate lease agreements and finding the best coffee grinders. Over the years I’ve talked...
View ArticleJuliette’s Monday Book Club: Books I Read To My Kids
When I was a child there were a lot of books with pretty pictures, but it has been in the past 50 years that the children’s book industry has blossomed into something truly magical and inspiring for...
View ArticleParent Chaperones Behaving Badly (Or How YOU Need to BEHAVE on Your Child’s...
Parent Chaperones Behaving Badly (Or How YOU Need to BEHAVE on Your Child’s Field Trips) I’ll make this quick, because we all know parents (and I’m one of them) don’t have a lot of time. If you have...
View ArticleShort Story Sunday: I Hate Valentine’s Day
I Hate Valentine’s Day “I shouldn’t be alone today,” thought young Randy as he sat brooding on a rock, on the beach at 5:30 a.m. on Valentine’s Day. His heart was broken. The girl, a Vampire girl he...
View ArticleDeliberate Parenting
The main message of this blog aside from don’t be a dick is to be a deliberate parent. Since 2012 I’ve been blogging about parenting. Now my children are grown and they’ve turned out to be amazing,...
View ArticleParenting: What I practice and believe in
I saw a post on a social media thread where someone asked, “what bad traits of yours do your children have?” My response was: None. My kids have grown up to be the kind of people I wanted to be. The...
View ArticleExploring the Wonders
Exploring the Wonders They grow And explore The wonders Of the universe If we let them. Then they explore The wonders of their hearts and imagination. All children should be allowed to explore,...
View ArticleAppreciation
Kids don’t always appreciate what you do, or what you have, or what others do for them because they don’t have the life experience to appreciate anything. They don’t know a world where they don’t have...
View ArticleWhat We Believe
Beliefs that seemed so important to me when I was young don’t seem so important to me now. I think that applies to most people. We are influenced by our small world of parents and school. Then we go...
View ArticleParenting, Young Vampires, Werewolves, and Bullies
We’re getting into the season where we gather with friends and family rehashing old stories and random memories from the distant past. We could doContinue reading
View ArticleStay Weird
From Horror Writer Matthew Quinn: Opportunity To Support Arts (And a Stifled Artist) In Brookings, South Dakota I saw on Twitter feed of horror author/editor DougContinue reading
View ArticleShort Story Sunday: The Changeling (Happy Mother’s Day)
The Changeling By Juliette Kings I’ll always remember what my preschool teacher said at lunch and snack times. “You get what you get and youContinue reading
View ArticleJust Another School Shooting
The Covid pandemic is still going on, but we’ve made it our new normal and now everything is getting back to normal. Unfortunately one ofContinue reading
View ArticleMass Amnesia
Mass Amnesia A few days ago, Great Great Great Great Grandmama Lola, and Uncle Rico came to visit. Rico lives near Santa Barbara. Lola livesContinue reading
View ArticleI Hate Valentine’s Day
I Hate Valentine’s Day – A Very Short Story “I shouldn’t be alone today,” thought young Randy as he sat …
View ArticleJohnny Corino’s Body
Johnny Corino’s BodyA Story My friend Kay and I were the two women who found Johnny Corino’s body. We weren’t …
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