Calling For Manners

First I left a voice mail, then an email a few days later, and then another voice mail. And so it went for three weeks while one of my major (and, dare I say, favorite) clients, failed to respond to an increasingly urgent request to connect. Did I mention that she actually needed to have [...]

A Hard Pill to Swallow?

Today my nine-year-old daughter made her first attempt at swallowing a ‘grown up’ pill. The sting that sealed her eye shut necessitated the antibiotic, and she swore she was old enough to give up liquid ‘baby medicine.’ She and I had an orientation of sorts—me giving her step-by-step instructions on how to effortlessly swallow a [...]