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- Alice Garbarini Hurley
- Montclair, New Jersey
- I'm Alice and I've been writing for most of my life--first, in a little green five-year diary my friend Lorraine gave me for Christmas in 6th grade, then for newspapers, magazines, websites and companies. I've blogged here, often daily, since Feb. 2010, trying hard to write truthfully even when it's scary. My husband and I are now freelance writers, so sometimes still we can afford salmon for dinner and sometimes we can't. Our daughter (blog name Figgy) is an artist and scientist in cyanobacteria algae research. The teen we are raising as legal guardians but have loved as our own (code name Punch/Skippy/Spice/Spike) is in high school. Our days range from sunny to sad, successful, sweet or funny. Reach me at alicehurley@aol.com.
It’s a big year -they expect a lot more from the kids than 3d grade. She may still fight it, but in her mind she is getting that there’s more work, and she’ll decide either she is going to get good at it or not. If she gets summer work, I hope you can get it done and have some part of the summer off. I remain grateful my kids are out of school!
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omg, me too, Liz! #grateful
ReplyDeleteHmmmm...since some of high school turned so scary and sad for us w Fig, I’m grateful for Punchy’s simple things like being afraid of the dark still and loving her teachers and riding her pink Schwinn bike etc. Figgy thriving for years now, thank God, but high school was not without dark forest paths [also lovely friends she still has and other blessings, but...]. So even though the homework/activities/learning to be a friend when you had a rough start/managing anger and hurt is hard, I’m in no rush for school to end. But I agree Liz, it’s more work and we all had to get on board. Love Alice
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