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A Story About a Boy and his Mama

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Neil Kramer Image from rawpixel.com My mother was in her yoga class in Boca Raton last week, doing one of her chair exercises, when another woman accidentally moved the chair that my mother was leaning against for support. My mother fell back, hit the floor, and when she stood up, the teacher noticed blood. The paramedics... quickly came and she received three stitches in the back of her head. She’s OK now, or “Perfectly fine,” as she always says, and already back in the exercise class. [...]

A Story About Sleepaway Camp and Finding Confidence

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Neil Kramer When I was eight years old, I attended my first year of Camp Kinder-Ring, a sleepaway camp in upstate New York. Our first breakfast of the summer was served in a wood-framed dining room, where bunkmates sat together at large oval tables. The waiters, 16-year-old campers, served us soggy scrabbled eggs and individual boxes of Kellogg’s cereals, my favorite being Sugar Pops. In the center of each table was... an aqua blue plastic pitcher which held the watered-down orange juice. “Can you pass the juith?” I asked another bunk [...]