…When Cary and my stepson joined me in that home, it was still spacious. My German Shepherd, Rocky, was our second child, and we began to enjoy all the comforts of city life. Cary’s border collie blue heeler mix dog, Tia, came to live with us, too. There were a number of elderly couples on […]
Month: December 2014
excerpt CHAPTER 14 – PRO-ACTIVE PARENTING
…From that point on, we became fairly consistent in our parenting, and though we were no experts or learned professionals, we felt our parenting was right and righteous. The problem with most experts, in my humble opinion, is that their parenting experience is generally based on two kids, one of each gender, or on research […]
excerpt CHAPTER 13 – BOY, BOY, GIRL, GIRL, GIRL
…We now had five kids and two parents living in a 900-square-foot house! Although we owned the house next door for our office, we decided to begin an addition to our home—a second story. Cary was working on the plans, had started to build the garage, and was tweaking the upstairs floor plan before we […]
excerpt CHAPTER 12 – THE ART INSTITUTE
…During the late 1980s, Denver and most of Colorado was greatly affected by an oil boom—gone bust. The architecture and interior design professions were hit in the associated economic fall-out, and so my husband and I found our newly-formed design business without much work. A friend had recommended Cary as a possible college instructor to […]