Family
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Weekend Wanderer: My Daughter Is Applying to College, and I’m Not OK
I was driving down Street Road in Bucks County recently when I saw — Sorry. I have to take a deep breath or this story will be peppered with four-letter words. And one seven-letter word. And two eight-letter words. I saw a kid — a teenager — sitting in the open window of a car…
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Weekend Wanderer: Road-Trip Car Games … to Play by Yourself
So there I was, driving eight hours to drop off my kid at camp. Then driving eight hours home by myself. Three days later, I’d embark on that same trip in reverse — eight hours alone in the car, then eight hours with my daughter on the drive home from camp. The eight-hour drive didn’t…
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Weekend Wanderer: I Left My Kid at Camp
So my kid is at sleepaway camp. Yep. I drove through four states to leave my kid with strangers for five days. Are you guys having trouble breathing? Because I’m having trouble breathing. Strangers! I left my kid with strangers! I thought leaving my dog in a kennel was hard. But this? This is a…
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Weekend Wanderer: I Fell. Is This the Beginning of the End?
I turned the lock on the storm door. You know the one — it won’t engage without a forceful inward jerk, an even more forceful twist of the lock, and about seven expletives. I turn this lock often in the evening. I have an old beagle with an old prostate who feels the best time…
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Weekend Wanderer: Indiana Jones, by Way of Maryland
What do the new Indiana Jones movie, my spiraling refrigerator, and Indy’s Maryland property have in common? The answer is a story and then some. I would start at the beginning, but I don’t know where that is, exactly. It might start in the ’50s, when Indy bought the Maryland property. It might start with…
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Miller Family With Deep Delaware County Roots Holds 70th Reunion in Trainer
The Miller family reunion celebrated its 70th anniversary Sunday as hundreds came from all over to attend the day-long event at Henry Johnson Park in Trainer, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times. Grandmother Marian Abrams Miller started the tradition back in the 1950s. “The purpose was really so that my grandmother’s children always…
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Weekend Wanderer: I’m Too Picky About My Showers
Now that my husband is all Buddy the Elf about making friends in his outdoors organization, I have met many people. Many, many people. I have friends all over the country. And one acquaintance in Canada. Or maybe he’s just from Canada. I don’t know. But he makes me look like a better cook so…
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TLC: Geocaching: Summer Adventure for the Whole Family
With summer break in full swing, low-cost, spontaneous opportunities for adventure are at a premium. One great way to combine treasure-hunting, adventure, problem-solving, and connection with other adventurers around the world is to join the millions who enjoy Geocaching. Geocaching is an outdoor activity involving using GPS coordinates to find hidden containers or “caches” in…
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Weekend Wanderer: Why Does My Mom Keep Misplacing Checks?
It’s been a bit since we had a Willie story. We should probably check in on her. Our check-in begins this morning when I was recounting to my husband the plot of Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. He was, as you might imagine, enthralled. If there is one thing better than watching a ’90s…
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Havertown’s Patrick Creed Returns Home for Good From Ukraine
A Havertown man who took his U.S. Army experience in Iraq over to Ukraine to help them in their fight has returned home for good, writes TaRonda Thomas for 6abc. Patrick Creed made returned home to Havertown Thursday, surprising his daughter at Haverford Middle School. His daughter had been told she’d be visiting with an…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Death of the Refrigerator, Part Two
When I last left you, I had saved my fridge but decimated the freezer. But I made a bet I could save that freezer. And I had come this far in my quest to avoid pronouncing the refrigerator dead. I wasn’t ready to quit. When I originally pulled the refrigerator from the wall, finding a…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Refrigerator Is Trying to Die
One day in 2017, Indy pulled my fridge from its kitchen nook. I was in trouble. Upon discovering my failure to periodically clean behind and beneath the fridge, Indy told me he’d be over to be sure I got the job done. I should have been able to get that fridge out myself. But I…
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Millennials Squeezed Out of Childcare Market by High Costs, Waiting Lists
Millennials trying to find help in the childcare market can be overwhelmed by the cost and the limited availability of services, writes Caroline O’Halloran for SAVVY Main Line. “We’re at capacity until the summer of 2024,” reports Angela Bruno, owner of Kids Clubhouse in Radnor. The Goddard School in Wayne has a two-year waiting list,…
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Weekend Wanderer: (Not) Planning a Family Vacation
I fly to Scotland in 72 hours. Sealed in a metal tube 30,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean. Where the Titanic sank. You know how I feel about sunken ships. I feel no less animosity toward them when they’re beneath my plane. Or, you know, next to it. Throw in some snakes and that situation…
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Good for Each Other, Former Co-Workers Celebrate 30 Years of Love
Todd and Rose Anne both worked for TV Guide in the 1980s, but it was a co-worker friend, Emma who would bring them together, writes Kellie Patrick Gates for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Rose Anne, from Newtown Square, divorced in 1991. She and Todd had both left TV Guide by then, but Emma suggested they all…
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Eagles’ Jason Kelce Talks Kids During Filming of Campbell’s Soup Ad
In between filming a Campbell’s Chunky soup commercial with his brother Travis, and mom Donna Kelce, Philadelphia Eagles player Jason Kelce talked about his life after his third daughter, Bennett, was born. “I need to knock on wood, but we really lucked out,” said the 35-year-old father to Bennett, 11 weeks; Elliotte, 2; and Wyatt,…
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Weekend Wanderer: Springtime Pests, Part Two
The dead mouse was bad enough. But the critter situation is so much worse than one long-dead mouse in the crawl space. You might remember the skinks living beneath my house. I thought they were snakes when they first showed up because really. Am I getting close enough to the serpentine thing slithering up from…
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This Wallingford Mom’s a Firefighter and Business Owner
Nicole Simmons will enjoy a rare luxury on Sunday. For Mother’s Day, she plans to just relax, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times. The mother of 2-year-old Jon Jr. (JJ), Simmons is also a volunteer firefighter for the Garden City Fire Company in Wallingford. Plus, the 2006 Strath Haven High School graduate runs Simmons…
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