The national average is 2.5 kids. Many families make the leap to three, perhaps to avoid that tricky half-child. There are those who choose to have four, but really, they're moving toward the fringe of society. Five kids weren't uncommon several years ago, but today, that number pushes the capacity of standard homes and cars. When you get up to six or seven kids, you're in Brady Bunch and Waltons territory. Meet the Ray family. That's Angela and Terry-and their eight kids. Come June, it will be nine kids. And they don't even have a TV show. The children are Tara, 20; Tyler, 14...
It’s confession time. How many of you didn’t listen to me when I said not to plant annuals until after the 15th? How many of you had yards that looked like a ghost convention at Halloween with all the sheets and blankets draped over things?
Last week a friend and I went to a new restaurant in the Old City called The Crown and Goose, a good, old-style British tavern. We felt the electricity in the air; people always enjoy seeking out a new eatery, especially if it's good.
The second Sunday in May, this year the 11th, is Mother's Day in America. The holiday has some surprising roots in an event from the past, the Civil War. Julia Ward Howe, the woman who penned the Battle Hymn of the Republic at the beginning of the Civil War, felt that the carnage of the war had left wounds that needed to not only be healed but healed by mothers. Howe issued a Mother's Day Proclamation in 1870, five years after the war had ended, but the wounds of the war continued. She began her proclamation with, "Arise, then, women of this day!
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It’s confession time. How many of you didn’t listen to me when I said not to plant annuals until after the 15th? How many of you had yards that looked like a ghost convention at Halloween with all the sheets and blankets draped over things?
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