Walker Grant students completed an innovative new digital citizenship curriculum in February. Led by teacher Natalie Hornung, the program awarded 3 Oculus Quest Virtual reality sets, headphones,…
April 2022
The past two years have changed our lives forever. Parents struggled to juggle remote school with remote work, all from the confines of home. Children lost important time at school with their…
This last Saturday was quite a packed one for the Jones family. I got to work my dad muscles, both figuratively and literally.Working Up a Sweat
I started the day with a trip to the gym. That’s a…
Pregnancy is an exciting time. Your body is changing, your household is changing, and you’re preparing to bring an entirely new person into the world. There’s a lot to do prior to birth, but one…
Anyone can open a door,
but ACT does so much more …
… and that’s more important
than ever in today’s market!
It’s hard to miss the headlines about the record-setting real estate market we are…
I’m walking into the men’s room at the Hilton Doubletree in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. I’m on a work trip, and my kids are hundreds of miles away back in Fredericksburg. But even without…
Dear Ms. Lydia,
My autistic son is 12 years old and has a difficult time making and maintaining friendships. Is there anything I can do to help him?Thanks!
– Mary Beth, Stafford Thank you so much…
“What are we doing tomorrow?” is a commonly asked phrase by my eldest. I fully acknowledge that he is an extravert and he gets his energy from being around people, and while I am a people person,…
Barbie Swanson has carried the heavy burden of being different. Until age 38, she attributed her difficulties to character flaws. It was an easy conclusion to come to; after all, it was her…
One of my favorite dinner obsessions is to have “giant sandwich night” as it is affectionately referred to in my household. Basically, we assemble our favorite sandwich fixings onto a huge loaf…