The soul-crushing daily routine of our teens  has been captured in a three minute short film called Numb written by a 15 year Toronto teen. Liv McNeil shares the real life numbness of learning online. With no structure, no friends, and how daunting the isolation is. Worth every parents three minutes.

My husband and I have found ourselves posing as unaccredited teachers for night class AKA  at our dining room table, after dinner, in these trying days of 2020. I sucked at Geometry 45 years ago, so you can imagine the results today. Our girls aren’t seeing any offers from Harvard while they eat chips wearing not washed enough pajamas  in …

Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” is number on i Tunes this morning. Van Halen’s singles take up a third of the top 100. What? “Dreams” has been propelled up the charts thanks to a viral video on TikTok Nathan Apodaca  drinks from a bottle of Cran-Raspberry juice while skateboarding. Huh? That’s right. “Dreams” is now streaming like crazy. “Dreams” sold 72,000 copies …

With the cancellation of life the past 7 months, I was ecstatic to see that the Northland Arboretum is safely planning on scaring us silly again this year with their fantastic Haunted Trail!

With the stress and anxiety of 2020, a new study from the University of Leeds has just been released. By watching just a half an hour of animal videos, stress levels decreased, high blood pressured lowered, and heart rates dropped.