Grief

A Story About a Fish

By Every Family's Guest Writer -- Alison Tedford One day my son will read this fish story and will probably not be delighted with our behavior, but today is not that day. Thankfully. Once upon a time, I faced a parenting dilemma I did not know how to solve. We recently had a death in the family and our little dude was grieving hard (we all were, but he was really struggling.) All of our emotional energy was centered on helping us get through a tough time. That’s when his fish started getting sick. Now fish can have a [...]

2018-08-13T14:49:42-04:00August 15, 2018|3 Comments

The Day I Visited a Sex Shop With My 70-Year-Old Mother

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Kathy Radigan “So who has had sex today?” the pretty — and a little-too-perky for 10:00 am  — tour guide asks. “And sex with yourself doesn’t count.” Perhaps a “Sex and the City” bus tour of NYC wasn’t such a great idea for a bonding experience with my 70-year-old mother. A few weeks earlier, I was given the opportunity to review a company that provided Experience Gifts, and it seemed like the perfect thing to do with my mom. But now that we were actually on the bus, I had to question [...]

2019-11-18T11:20:21-05:00February 7, 2018|4 Comments
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