June 6th, 2008 by admin

©Lisa Barker

My youngest has been playing school with his older siblings and now he feels ready to start kindergarten.

“Whoa!  You need to be five first.”

“But I’m ten.”

“Not quite.”

He recites his ABCs and counts to 100.  He spells his first name and sometimes his last name.  He likes rhyming and opposites.  When I cook dinner and he plays school with me, I better do it right. Read the rest of this entry »

June 5th, 2008 by admin

By Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C.

If you go to an office every day, you’ve undoubtedly been at the mercy of co-workers, who can best be dubbed “sugar pimps.”

No disrespect intended, but I’m sure you know to whom I’m referring.

You know, those sweetly smiling, eager-to-please colleagues who continually proffer cakes, cookies and donuts with such polite insistence that, despite your best efforts, your diet goes belly up. (Pun intended.)

You know, those annoying people—either amazingly slim or embarrassingly overweight—who always seem to have jars of candies on their desk to tempt and torture all who pass.

You know, those co-workers who mean no harm but annoy the heck out of you by constantly bringing “goodies” to work. Read the rest of this entry »