Double Trouble
Cathy Gruetzke-Blais knew her identical twins were a flight risk. At two years old, neither would sit in a shopping cart for more than a few minutes before trying to climb over the side and make a break for it. So on a trip to her local Target one spring day, the desperate Framingham mother strapped a tiny blue harness around each girl’s shoulders, then clipped a leash to their backs, convinced the contraption would thwart any escape attempts…
The Bostonians Giving Us Hope for the Future
On the morning of Saturday, March 14, Mark Racine received a text: “I need you to call this number.”
The message was from Charlene Briner, Boston Public Schools’ chief of staff. She gave no further information; the number itself was a mystery. But Racine dialed anyway. And after a few rings, he found himself speaking directly with Mayor Marty Walsh.
Training Our Kids for the Next School Shooter
My friend’s eight-year-old daughter came home from school recently and bolted into the bathroom. When she came out, her mother asked, “Is everything okay?”
They’d had a safety drill at school that day, her daughter explained, at which they’d been told, among other things, that if an intruder entered the school while they were in the bathroom, they should lock the stall and climb onto the toilet seat so he couldn’t see their feet.
The death of the school dance
THIS MOTHER’S DAY as I celebrate 13 years of motherhood, I’m feeling especially sentimental. My sweet twin boys, so loving and kind, are on the verge of adolescence, meaning we’re in for body odor, acne, and changing voices — and likely some wall-punching and locked doors…
Julie Suratt 