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Special Needs Trust Funds

Raising a child with a disability takes a lot of energy, perseverance, patience, and most of all–planning. You plan your nightly meals based on the color because your dear one doesn’t eat anything, red, crunchy, round or grainy. The same goes for where to shop, who to visit, when and if we vacation, and what TV programs to watch. However, the most important factor we contemplate is who will take care of our child with a disability when we’re gone. It’s a tough pill to swallow, but one day, a child with significant disabilities will not have his parent with … Continue reading →

Get Paid for Having Fun on TV

I love having fun in the great outdoors swimming, biking, sailing, hiking, and running. However, when it comes to bungee jumping from the skid of a helicopter into an active volcano or rappelling down an iceberg, you can count me out. Needless to say, my fear of heights (or more accurately, my fear of falling from high places) automatically disqualifies my family from appearing on TV’s latest reality series. The producers of “Amazing Race,” “The Biggest Loser,” and “The Office” are currently searching for America’s most outgoing families to compete in exciting outdoor challenges in the nation’s most beautiful national … Continue reading →

Follow Up On Our Flat Screen TV Saga

Earlier this month I wrote about the problems we were having with flat screen televisions. As I had mentioned, were we unhappy as these TV were breaking and in need of repair long before any of the old standard TV’s did. I told about one TV that lasted 18 months then cost us $200 to fix the power circuit and then our newest TV refusing to work after 2 months. We were having a power issue with the flat screen TV in our hotel as well. I conjectured that the problem was with the Charter cable box that seemed to … Continue reading →

Focus on the Candidates – Ben Carson

This blog is part of the series that focuses on the candidates who are running for President of the United States in 2016. This blog focuses on Ben Carson. Ben Carson is a former pediatric neurosurgeon who worked at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. He is known for the first successful separation of craniopagus twins that were joined at the back of the head in 1987. In 2001, he was selected by the Library of Congress as one of 89 “Living Legends”. Ben Carson does not have a political background. Health Care On his official website, Ben Carson calls Obamacare … Continue reading →

Grandmother Bullied on School Bus

Oh the lessons you can learn on a school bus. Lesson #1: Don’t bully an innocent grandmother/bus monitor, and then smirk as someone shoots video of you in the act. Because… Lesson #2: The chances of said video going viral are astronomical and… Lesson #3: The chances of said grandmother having the last laugh are even greater. Just ask Karen Klein. The 68-year-old grandmother from upstate New York has endured plenty of pain in her life, including the death of her beloved husband and the tragic loss of her son to suicide. However, it took a bus full of tweenage … Continue reading →

Taking Care of Children: Priceless

Clearly, I am in the wrong line of work. Can’t stand the sight of blood, so medicine is out; not great with numbers, so hedge fund manager is not an option. However, I do love kids, even ones that aren’t mine, so why am I not raking in the dough? Because I am not a babysitter in California. If you thought it was costing you an arm and a leg to fund your monthly date night in the Golden State now, just wait until a new bill passes. You may be a paraplegic before your kids enter high school. Assemblyman … Continue reading →

School’s Ending

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I am a nervous wreck. School ends in a few days. What am I supposed to do with Jessie all day? Jessie’s been in school since January. She goes every day for about three hours. It’s not an ideal school situation, but it’s the one that we have. I would love for her to be in a program that is all day a few days a week, but she’s in speech therapy at the local public school. We wanted Jessie to attend a nearby Montessori school. We paid the registration fee and had the tuition together to prepay for a … Continue reading →

The Quarter, Part 2

Be sure to read Part 1 of the story. We went from radiology back to the triage area. Then the nurse put Jessie in a bed. After examining Jessie the doctor decided that it would be best for her to go to Children’s Dallas. When I brought up that I had wanted to go to Children’s first, the nurses told us that it we did the right thing going to the closer hospital. It would have been easy for us to leave the hospital and head out for Children’s. We were halfway there already. The reason the doctor was sending … Continue reading →

Cutting Back on Expenses to Stay at Home with Your Child

When planning for our first child, we figured that I would take some time off but eventually head back to work at least a few days a week. I didn’t want to send my baby off to daycare, but we didn’t think we could manage to pay our bills unless I did. Then fate threw us a curveball. Our daughter couldn’t go to daycare, at least not for the first 6 months, and after that, it would still be better if she didn’t. Having cystic fibrosis means avoiding people with colds and respiratory viruses at all costs and, as we … Continue reading →

Author Interview—Jean Hackensmith on Virtual Book Tours

I recently blogged about virtual book tours, the new way of book promotion through the Internet. As a follow-up to that blog, I had the opportunity to speak with author Jean Hackensmith about her experiences with virtual touring and her writing life. Jean, you’re currently on a virtual book tour to promote your new book, “Checkmate.” Is this your first tour? No. I also did a Virtual Book Tour last December for the final installment in The “Passage” Saga, titled “The Ultimate Passage.” The tour was a huge success and, I’m happy to say, has generated many new sales, not … Continue reading →