On A Limb with Claudia

Have you read about the “Popsicle Disaster”? If not, here’s a good link Popsicle Disaster. In a city that has recently withstood plane crashes and terrorist attacks, New York experiences it’s own Popsicle nightmare. (I know this story does not need more blogs written about it but I simply could not resist…)
Working in [...]

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It finally happened…. I was watching Rose near the lake and hear this sound…
“Good morning” in a masculine voice. I look up and the guy who is afraid of dogs and carries a big stick to keep them away, is standing there. This is the first time he has said anything to me [...]

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Friend of the Grove, Carla Wills-Brandon, is looking into writing a book about anxiety. She asked people to answer the following questions. This is what I said:
1.) What makes you anxious? Dating, work, how you look, etc.,
2.) What is your definition of anxiety?
3.) What do you do to cope with anxiety?
1.) What makes [...]

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I found the Baby Name Wizard link on the Freakonomics blog and spent about a 1/2 hour amusing myself checking out all of the names in my family. My nieces’ and nephew’s names? Very common. I started checking Open Grove names - no one names their child “Darryl” anymore, sorry about that, [...]

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The plume from the Four Corners Power Plant is one of two manmade objects that are visible from the Space Shuttle with the other being the Great Wall of China.
It struck me as odd then that, the Four Corners Power Plant was recently rated among the worst emissions in the United States (article in Durango [...]

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I have been asked and asked and asked about this…. And this is what I think:
4 selfish jerks sat down to play poker in Santa Clarita California this year. The players? In one chair, we have a District Attorney desperate to save face and finally prove a criminal case. Across from him sits [...]

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Every morning, I take Rose, our 4 year old Vizsla, to the park. She is very funny, so I laugh at her antics while we walk. We pass a variety of people from all walks of life, all ages, and ethnicity on the summer mornings in the park. When we first started walking, [...]

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Many people seem to be exactly in this spot right now. They want their lives to be different, richer, and have more meaning, yet are terrified to give up the things they have become accustomed to: large salaries, expensive toys, status and on and on.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer mentioned a poem by Adrienne [...]

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In my conversation with Dr. Kimberlee Whaley, she spoke of “developmentally appropriate parenting”. She defines developmentally appropriate parenting as parenting that takes into consideration the child’s developmental stage. A parent then would expect the child to behave and interact differently depending on their developmental stage or age.
It’s an interesting idea. [...]

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The audio magazine is going to be a few days late! I spent almost all day yesterday participating in the very American debacle of jury duty. Here in Colorado, there are no exceptions or exemptions to jury duty. Everyone, including judges, famous actors, and the governor, has to do jury duty if [...]

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