Tag: eldest child
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Of Senior Pictures, Former Eastern Block Countries, and Forgotten Anniversary Cards…
The summer has whisked by. One day it was May 31st and our middle was finishing what had been their eleventh grade year–they were a high school junior–and two days later we were listening to a message left by the school photographer stating that senior pictures would be made the following week and leaving the…
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Manuscripts, Editing, and the Chaos of Writing…
Last week was an absolute blur. It was crazy. My middle child, a junior in high school, was approaching taking her SAT for the first time. Two semester term papers, each between 12 and 15 pages lay in wait to be edited. As a writer I had to assist in my child in this process.…