by tanyaagler | Mar 1, 2015 | parenting
This isn’t a rant about the cost of living. Okay, maybe it’s partly a rant about the cost of living, but it goes deeper than that. One recent study says that it can cost anywhere between $150,000 and $450,000 to raise a child without factoring the price of college...
by tanyaagler | Feb 5, 2015 | writing
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about our family adopting a dog named Vera, or more accurately, how Vera adopted our family. My family and I didn’t enter into this with blinders on. We knew there would be adjustments on both sides, and we hoped for a good fit. Vera’s...
by tanyaagler | Jan 18, 2015 | pets
What do Alice, Pink Floyd, and Cheers have in common? Vera. On Alice, there was a ditzy but lovable waitress named Vera. There is a Pink Floyd song entitled Vera. And, of course, on Cheers, Norm’s much-discussed but never-seen long-suffering wife was named Vera. There...
by tanyaagler | Jan 1, 2015 | New Year's Day, writing
I’m not a big believer in New Year’s resolutions. When I was a kid, I’d always make the same resolutions and never follow through for more than a month. Now that I’m older, I try to change things when I see I need to change something rather than wait for a new...
by tanyaagler | Jun 25, 2014 | writing
This past weekend, I posted a blog about my family’s vacation to Pennsylvania. Having children whose birth years span different centuries means that sometimes my wonderful hubby takes the two older children to one activity while I take the two younger children...
