Anyone of a certain age probably knows this song from the movie Meatballs: “We are the CITs, so pity us. The kids are brats. The food is hideous. We’re gonna smoke and drink and fool around. We’re Northstar CITs!” The backdrop of the movie is a weeks-long summer camp, just…
Hello, my name is Nancy (hi, Nancy!), and I grew up a middle child. Yes, I know I started a blog post a few weeks ago this same way, saying I’m the single mother of an adult child (When You Realize You Have an Adult Child). I’m also a middle…
If you’ve never heard of the butterfly effect, it’s the idea that small movements or changes can have significant impact. It is believed that the philosophy derives from the work of mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz, who suggested that the disturbance caused by a butterfly flapping its wings could…
