I hate to go all “Shirley MacLaine” on you…but I’ve had two lives.
My first life was pretty typical: House in the ‘burbs, nice husband who was pretty easy on the eyes, 3 kids I was sometimes tempted to put out on the driveway with a sign that said “free to a good home” but who [...]

One week ago today, my husband Jamie entered Good Samaritan Hospital. The three days that ensued were among the most frantic and stressful of our married lives.
Jamie had originally set a doctor’s appointment to undergo some routine testing for the chest pain he had experienced during aerobic activity. Almost immediately he was admitted [...]

The number of abused or neglected children in Colorado has risen over the past three years, even as the numbers in other states have declined — with 36 children killed by abuse in 2009, up from 27 in 2007.
After a dip between 2006 and 2007, the rates of confirmed child abuse and neglect in the [...]

It can be a scary world out there for kids and their parents, but thanks to a new company, Kidproof Colorado, strides are being made to ease the stress.
Kidproof, a household name in Canada, is now America’s leading provider of child safety education classes according to Megan Galgano, owner of Kidproof Colorado.
Galgano, a teacher and [...]

If you’ve got kids – which presumably everyone reading this does – then at one point or another you’ve had to deal with the daunting task of picking the best school for your child.  When I was a kid in Michigan in the 1960s and ‘70s this wasn’t an issue. You either went to your [...]

In Arizona, budget cuts to K-12 education last year eliminated state funding for full-day kindergarten and reduced money for textbooks, technology and other teaching tools.
Florida voters in November rejected a ballot measure that would have relaxed constitutionally mandated class sizes as a way to ease the strain of cutting education funding.
And in North Carolina, there’s [...]

Lily Nie is the ultimate tiger mother, matriarch of 9,350 children whose adoptions were facilitated by Chinese Children Adoption International, the Centennial organization she established in 1992.
Instead of seeking the limelight, she prefers to slip to the side. Her office door is papered with a giant handwritten tribute, one of many outsized Mother’s Day gifts, [...]

Forget Tiger Mom. We should be buzzing about Jailed Mom.
Tiger Mom, if you haven’t heard, is the overbearing, obsessive Chinese-American mom who cares so much about her kids that she never lets them attend a sleep- over, watch TV, play a video game or act in a school play.
Jailed Mom is a woman from the [...]

In November, Mile High Mamas featured the story of Andrea Merriman, the wife of convicted Ponzi schemer Shawn Merriman. Be sure to tune in to get her take on the recent event that made headlines in Denver.
The auction of many of the possessions from my former life took place two weeks ago.
Thank goodness ”We are [...]

I was taken aback when I read that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure was canceling their three-day walk for breast cancer in Colorado because, according to their PR agency, “it just didn’t meet financial goals.”
Nevermind the thousands of dollars Denverites have raised in what has became one of our city’s most highly-attended [...]