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Tag Archives: children
New column: “30 ingredients for an old-fashioned summer”
Summer is coming! Let’s do it the old-fashioned way–with (mostly) free, simple pleasures for young and old. I’ve a bunch of ideas in this week’s newspaper column. Thirty, to be exact. Thanks for reading! To read, click here.
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Tagged amwriting, Asheville Citizen-Times, childhood, children, columnist, creative nonfiction, essay, fatherhood, ingredients, ingredients for old-fashioned summer, Katherine Scott Crawford, kids, lightning bugs, motherhood, newspaper columnist, old-fashioned, parenting, recipe, summer, summer fun, summer in the South, summer is coming, summertime, The Greenville News, things to do, writer
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New column: “It’s time to donate the tiny toddler clothes, and big tears are falling”
Recently I decided it was time to pull my daughters’ baby and toddler clothes down from the attic, and give them away. I don’t know what I was thinking. The agony. So this, parenting, kids, childhood, memories, and more, in … Continue reading
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Tagged Asheville Citizen-Times, baby clothes, bittersweet, childhood, children, columnist, donating clothes, fatherhood, Gannett, hand me downs, Katherine Scott Crawford, kids, memories, motherhood, newspaper column, parenting, preschool, tears, The Greenville News, toddlers, USA Today, writing newspaper column
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New column: “Pediatric cancer is an emotional journey”
My newspaper column this week is one near to my heart. It’s about my dear friends and their son, Holmes, age 9. Holmes has a malignant brain tumor. This is a special family. I hope you’ll take the time to … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, brain cancer, cancer, children, Children's Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, CHOP, Clare Desmelik, CNF, columnist, Dave Desmelik, Desmelik family, Dragon Master Foundation, essay, family, federal funding, friends, friendship, go gray in May, Greenville Hospital System, health, Holmes Desmelik, Holmes Team, Katherine Scott Crawford, Levine, newspaper column, parenting, Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, pediatric brain tumors, Pediatric Neuro Oncology Group, PNOC, research, Ride for Kids, sons, Starfolio, Starry Night, The Greenville News, tumors, www.curethekids.org
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New column: “A trip down memory lane”
My newspaper column this week is about a trip my cousin and I took down memory lane, to our old stomping grounds at Clemson University. It’s also about college, memory, family, parenting, and more. I hope y’all enjoy it! To … Continue reading
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Tagged Asheville Citizen-Times, children, Clemson University, CNF, college, column, cousins, creative nonfiction, essay, gardens, get outside, Katherine Scott Crawford, kids, memory lane, newspaper column, nostalgia, parenting, personal, South Carolina, South Carolina Botanical Gardens, The Greenville News
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New column: “Raising a sensitive child … when you’re a sensitive parent”
Parenting is not for sissies. Most especially when we see our own struggles manifest in the people we love most in the universe: our kids. So this, parenting, life, children, sensitivity, and more, in my newspaper column this week. I hope y’all … Continue reading
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Tagged Asheville Citizen-Times, childhood, children, columnist, creative nonfiction, emotional outburst, empathy, essay, fatherhood, heredity, Katherine Scott Crawford, kids, life, motherhood, newspaper column, parenting, personal, personality, raising kids, sensitivity, sensory processing, The Greenville News, thin skin
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New column: “August is a time of bittersweet transition”
August signifies the end of summer, no matter what the calendar may claim, no matter whether we have school-age children or not. There is just something in the air. So this, and more, in my column this week in The … Continue reading
New column: “Play the tourist in your own town”
I am lucky to live in a vacation destination. This means dealing with tourists. Thankfully, my 8 year-old reminds me of the joy in this. To read my column this week in The Greenville News (with tons of big, pretty … Continue reading
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Tagged biking, Bracken Mountain Bakery, Brevard, children, climbing, columnist, Cradle of Forestry, creative nonfiction, essay, Forest Discovery Center, hiking, Katherine Scott Crawford, kids, NC, newspaper column, O.P. Taylor's, parenting, Pisgah National forest, The Greenville News, tourists, toy store, vacation destination, WNC
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New column: “‘Motherhood is an act of infinite optimism'”
My newspaper column this week is all about the moms. And how I had to extract a seed from my child’s ear last week. And quotes from the funniest moms in America. And more. Happy Mother’s Day to all the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anderson Independent, children, columnist, daughters, Elizabeth Stone, Erma Bombeck, Gildna Radner, humor, Katherine Scott Crawford, Kelly Oxford, kids, mama, moms, Mother's Day, motherhood, newspaper column, parenting, Phyllis Diller, The Greenville News, Tina Fey
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New column: “A story about whining”
Hi, all. My column this week in The Greenville News is about whining. Because if I hear my 7 year-old whine one more time, I’m moving to Australia. To read, click here. Hope y’all enjoy it!
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Tagged children, column, columnist, Katherine Scott Crawford, motherhood, newspaper column, parenting, second grade, The Greenville News, whining, writing
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New column: “How many of us really know how to relax?”
Last week’s column in The Greenville News was all about my inability to relax. Even at the beach. Which is where I was, and why I forgot to post it here. I hope y’all enjoy it! To read, click here.
