Dallas Symphony Orchestra selects St. Andrew as a location for its popular DSO on the GO series, reaching audiences in the Plano and Collin County area The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has selected St. Andrew United Methodist Church as a location for its DSO on the GO series and will hold…
By Jeff Willie | Contributor In life, you don’t get what you want, you get what you expect. The key word is “Expectations.” Your word choice and your nonverbals like body language determine your expectations. What do you expect from your children? What are the modeling behaviors your children are…
By Bianca Williams | Contributor For many students, getting back into the school routine is challenging to say the least. Figuring out how to juggle homework, extracurricular activities, home chores, high expectations, and peer relationships is certainly stressful—not to mention the pressure of trying to “fit in” socially or dealing…
By Alicia Wanek Children are playing sports in record numbers. It is estimated that there are 30-45 million youth athletes in the U.S., and with North Texas being the fourth largest metropolitan area in the nation, many of those are our kids. The benefits of playing sports are innumerable, but…
BY KARYN BRODSKY The website quotes Mother Teresa: “If you can’t feed one hundred people, feed just one.” Indeed, after starting out with only two cans of corn, Cheryl “Action” Jackson, founder of Minnie’s Food Pantry in Plano, and her staff and volunteers have served almost ten million meals to…
By Colin Smith | Contributor In 2011, an autistic ten-year-old was found wandering around a hospital alone. His mother decided that she couldn’t handle his medical and behavioral issues, so she dropped him off and left. This is not an isolated incident: parents with special needs children can grow desperate…
By Sheryl Lilly Pidgeon “Selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.” – Cecil Day-Lewis I am an Empty Nester. There, I said it. The Pidgeon kids have all flown the coop and gone off to college boom, boom, boom. I officially have a…
By John Kappel | Contributor As a family law attorney, I’ve seen my fair share of adults behaving badly to each other. But when they are also parents, that bad behavior frequently means they are not just failing each other, they are also failing in their obligations to their own…
By Alicia Wanek Mother. Professional. Volunteer. Philanthropist. Strong Woman. They may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound or run faster than a speeding bullet, but the three super ladies you’ll meet on the pages to follow have worked hard to figure out how to…