Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Proclaiming itself as the Host to the Future, the Big Easy is awash in red, white, and blue--from the business district to Bourbon Street. For a city that has suffered since oil prices collapsed, Republicans, and the money they'll spend this week, are a welcome sight...
...government who recently finished one year of teaching at Harvard. Usually Sandy teaches at Colby College in Waterville, where Josh was raised. Sandy took over full-time custody of Josh and his older sister Dana, now 16, after the divorce. On certain weekends and selected holidays, Josh and Dana spend time with their mother, who runs a management-consulting business in southern Maine...
...shouts loudly at each play Josh makes. Joyce arrives from work at half time. Mary Lou sits with Dana a short distance away. That night she'll drive the kids two hours north for a planned three-day holiday weekend; Dylan will be dropped off in Kennebunk, Me., to spend time with his father. A different parent will bring all three children back to Belmont. Parenthood in the late 20th century: love and logistics and chagrin...
...Katie and Mona spend a lot of time together. Before school let out for the summer, Katie was sometimes picked up by her sister from an after-school day-care program and walked home. This summer Mona and Katie will take field trips around Seattle while the Davises work. Katie and Mona will travel to the zoo or the aquarium or the science center on city buses. Or because they share a passion for reading, they will walk to the community library and find more books. "Mona teaches me all this stuff," says Katie, who asks Mona to dress...
...motif of absence -- moral, emotional and physical -- plays through the lives of many children now. It may be an absence of authority and limits, or of emotional commitment. A mother writes in the New York Times: "What I see emerging is an entirely new category of professionals who spend little, if any, time with their children. There appears to be a new form of neglect: absence ... Recently my six-year-old daughter exclaimed, 'Look, Mom, Sarah has a new babysitter.' The 'babysitter' was Sarah's mother...