Dear Daughter, As you navigate the choppy waters of womanhood (and damn, those are some high, white-capped swells), please, oh please, hear my voice, my love. Hear it, sweet child. Please don’t shrug me off. Hear it ringing through the din, right through these confounding, life-sorting years; right past your indifference, your boredom with me, […]
Albums That Changed My Life, Part 1 by Kim Valzania
When I was a kid, we saved our money to buy ALBUMS, or TAPES, or CD’s and listened to all the songs a hundred times over. We knew the words, we read the liner notes and thought about the lyrics. We wondered about the musicians. We put the needle on the record and tried not to […]
A Raising Arizona Parenting Handbook by Kim Valzania
When there’s too much happiness there for just the two of you, you’ve got to figure that the next logical step is to have yourself a critter. You might need some advice and what-not, and this here is it. When you get yourself a little one it is mighty crucial to parenting success that you […]