Category Archive: Life of an Issues Sibling

These Are a Few of the Sh*ttiest Things ….

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One more song from the 60s … Here’s the “Martha and Ruth” version of “My Favorite Things”! (Click on the video if you want the music …) Notes from the teacher And missing… Continue reading

Timon’s Tongue – a One Millimeter Battleground for “Fairness” and “Equality”

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“Seriously, where did any of us ever get the crazy idea that all our kids should be treated equally at any given time?” So wrote one of our wonderful readers (and commenters), HB,… Continue reading

The Sucker Punch

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I probably shouldn’t be so hard on the parents who think their perfect kids are the result of their perfect parenting (and think my kids’ issues are exaggerated, made up, or easily fixed… Continue reading

Someone Buy That Woman A Drink! (One Fish, Two Fish, cont.)

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As I continue to read my July 1998 journal, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry … because I think I hit every emotion possible within a page and a half on… Continue reading

One Fish, Two Fish … Big Brother, …???

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One of the things that prompted me to finally start writing (after years and years of Martha and I saying that we needed to write a book) was finding some pages of a… Continue reading