My middle daughter broke her ankle playing volleyball last week at a tournament in Alabama. She has been training for the past several years, pushing herself since the spring in order to make her high school volleyball team this fall. When we got the news of her broken ankle, it was five days before pre-season camp and only a week before tryouts. Was this a sign? Is she not supposed to play volleyball? Was G-D or the Universe, trying to tell her something? Or both of us somet

Summertime and the living is easy, and IT IS HOT. Well, for parents, summertime is not always about easy living. My youngest daughter is a competitive ice skater. Boy, does it get cold in those skating rinks! Sometimes it feels good, after being out in the hot sun all morning, but other times it is, indeed, just another challenge. Last weekend I was at one of her competitions sitting in the stands. A couple of rows in front of me, I spotted a toddler climbing up on some steps