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The Password is...
by Nancy Gonzalez, CFLE
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | October 15, 2009
I haven't posted a blog in over two weeks. I've been sick for a month with an underlying condition, that I
won't go into since it will soon be completely ameliorated, and nothing's so boring as hearing about
someone's aches and pains. I recall one of our NCFR conference speakers from a few years back who
talked about the health problems associated with aging that will mushroom now that the Baby Boomers are
growing older. He said that the list of complaints sounds like an "organ recital." His wisecrack was a hit with
the audience.
Now I have the upper respiratory crud that I caught from a coworker, thank you very much John Pepper. It's
not H1N1; no fever. But my voice sounds like Darth Vader, and I feel like a dishragwrung out.
There seems to be broad agreement that immune systems are compromised by stress. Hans Selye's
famous theories about stress indicated that "Distress" vs. "Eustress" (good stress) can be affected by the
individual's perception of the event. White coat folks tell us that distress makes us all more susceptible to
opportunistic infections.
What stresses me out? One source of distress for me, and maybe for you, is all of the passwords I'm
expected to memorize to conduct daily living. Here are some. Of course they're all different and all weird.
The code on the garage key pad.
The code on the entry door at NCFR.
My password to sign onto our server for email and WWW.
My password for our Association database.
My password to sign onto our online academic journals.
The passwords for my personal Facebook and Twitter pages.
The passwords for the NCFR Facebook and NCFR's twitter pages.
My passwords for other association memberships.
My password for online banking.
My "pin" number for my cash card.
The code to unlock my cell phone/PDA.
The password to our home voicemail.
�The password that allows my laptop to fire up.
There have to be more that I'm forgetting. It's oppressive. Not only that, many of them ask me to choose a
new password every few weeks. I wonder if someday each of us will have some kind of universal
password?
This reminds me of the old TV show "Password." It was a fun game show that featured Hollywood stars
competing against ordinary folks. Here's a YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOW9elO_lkc
It's been out as a home board game for decades and is a lot of fun to play. But, sadly, my husband and I
haven't played it in years. It was early in our marriage when we last played this game. The object of the
game is to give your partner a one word clue and have them guess what the "real word" the passwordis.
We didn't do very well, because he gave such screwball clues! (He would say the same about mine!) Let's
say the word he was trying to get me to say is "cabbage." Here's how it would've gone, many years ago.
George: lettuce
Nancy: salad
George: red
Nancy: tomato
George: gas
Nancy: You're deranged. I have no idea where you're going with this.
George: Sauerkraut
Nancy: cabbage!
It always took us a minimum of three tries. Now, however, many years have gone by, and we should try it
again. Like all longmarried couples, we now speak in a shorthand language that is full of inside jokes and
references known only to the two of us. We finish each other's sentences which, after all, is the whole
purpose of the Password game. Now in middle age, we could probably trounce a younger couple at
Password.
Oldyweds? Want some Eustress? Try a round of Password with some newlyweds.
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That One Moment in TimeWhitney Houston and the
soundtrack of my life
By Nancy Gonzalez, CFLE
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | February 13, 2012
This week one of the world's most beautiful voices fell silent forever.
Tragically, Whitney Houston passed away at the age of 48. People in
the social and broadcast media have been weighing in on what I will
term "What Whitney meant to me." Whitney will always be part of the
soundtrack of my life.
There's no higher praise I could have for her than to disclose that
"Whitney" was the name I had picked out for our son had he been born
our daughter. Two of her songs spoke to me so meaningfully that they
moved me to tears. One, The Greatest Love of All, was popular at a
painful time in my life and it inspired me by speaking the exact words I
needed to hear.
The other song that was so special to me was One Moment in Time. The lyrics describe the joy of reaching
the highest goal one could set for oneself.
I want one moment in time
When I'm more than I thought I could be
When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away
And the answers are all up to me
The music video on YouTube features a clip montage of Olympic Gold Medalists achieving their dreams.
The achievement of my dream is not Olympic Gold, but it was the most meaningful day outside of my
wedding day and the day I became a mother. It was the day I finished my Master's degree.
One day in early 1991, I had an odd spontaneous thought that seemed to come from nowhere. It was, "I
want a Master's degree." Graduate school was not a "script" I had coming from my familymy older sister
and my younger brother are both more intelligent. I was an unremarkable student from rural, workingclass
Minnesota. Getting a Bachelor's degree was almost miraculous for me. A Master's? Could I really? I had
a husband, a small child and a job. How could I? I don't know where the thought came from, but it was so
strong. I just knew I would do it. The fall of 1991, I took my first class.
It was early winter in 1996 when I found out that the University of Minnesota's College of Education had a
contest to be commencement speaker at the college's graduation ceremony. I was scheduled to graduate in
that ceremony in spring 1996. The task was to write a speech and submit it to a committee in the college
�who chose the student speaker. Once again, I had a strong inspired inner voice that spoke. "I am going to
win that contest!" I thought. It came to me from nowhere. I applied. And I won.
Whitney Houston's One Moment in Time perfectly captures that moment for me. There I was, with my
humorous speech all written out. I was at the podium in the university's Northrup Auditorium (pictured). I
was almost numb with the thought that its stage had seen Mikhail Baryshnikov dance and Aretha Franklin
sing. Now, for 10 minutes, it was mine. It was packed with over 4000 people. My husband George and our
8 year old son Eric were allowed to stand in the wings to watch me. As I was about to speak, I glanced over
at Eric who gave me the "thumbs up." I got a chance to tell the worldespecially my sonhow sacred
education is. I also found my writing voice and my favorite genre, humor. There was just nothing like it. A
huge auditorium of people laughed at my jokes and memoir. I will never have a moment of personal
achievement like that again.
Whitney described that One Moment in Time like no one else ever will.
Now I work with scholars every day. Many have Ph.D.s and speak to huge audiences all the time. I'm
nothing special. But that moment I was "more than I thought I could be." I'd love a Ph.D., but it's not going
to happen. The inspired thought isn't coming. I'm not complaining. We all peak at some point, and that was
mine. That's OK. I look forward to many wonderful moments to come in my lifemy son's graduation from
college and holding a grandchild for the first time come to mind. But both of those are up to my son and
God, not me. I would just like to leave my reader with some advice from someone who had the opportunity
of a lifetime. That One Moment in Time only happened to me once. When that spontaneous thought comes
from nowhere, and "all of your dreams are a heartbeat away," listen to it. Carpe diem.
Epilogue
One of the ironies of my commencement speech is that I can't post it because I can't find a copy. It wasn't
recorded, and I wrote it on a Macintosh and lost it when our family transferred files to the PC. I'm hoping
that someday I find a printed copy somewhere in my belongings.
Flickr photo of Northrop courtesy of Michael Hicks
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This week one of the world's most beautiful voices fell silent forever. Tragically, Whitney Houston passed away at the age of 48. People in the social and broadcast media have been weighing in on what I will term "What Whitney meant to me." Whitney will always be part of the soundtrack of my life. I had that One Moment in Time.
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One kid, two kid, red kid, blue kid choosing the size
of your family
By Nancy Gonzalez, CFLE
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | March 07, 2012
In this election cycle, for the first time in my adult life, family planning issues are
front and center. I never expected contraception to be part of the political discourse,
especially contraception practiced by a married couple. I can't think of a more
personalor more importantdecision for couples to consider. Whether parents are
in red states or blue states, this choice has social, ethnic and religious influences
that are very, very strong. One of our NCFR members just wrote a book to help
people think though this crucial decision.
Creating Your Perfect Family Size by Alan Singer, Ph.D. is a selfhelp book, but it's
based on research on issues of family size. I'll be a spoiler straight off and say that
Dr. Singer (pictured) will not tell you what your perfect family size should be. What
he does is introduce all of the factors that couples have used in making this decision and present other
factors that couples may not have thought about. As he says, "In my experience, the decision about how
many children you and your partner should have ranks right up there with choices about career, religion and
where you want to live."
What are the common issues prospective parents think about?
Social pressures, such as providing grandchildren for one's parents
Not being alone as an elder
Having a second child so that the other child won't be alone
Having a child to cement together a blended Brady Bunch kind of family
How far apart to space their pregnancies
Probably the most useful aspect of the book is how he explodes the myths involved with this decision. A
childor another childwill not increase your marital satisfaction. "Only" children aren't doomed to being
spoiled brats. And this is an obvious one, but one I've heard quite often, when the parents of a boy say they
are going to "try for a girl" or vice versa. Your chances don't improveeach pregnancy is a new 5050 roll of
the dice.
Personally, I zeroed in on the section about "only" children. My husband and I have just one child, a son. He
is in college and is the delight of our lives. However, his early childhood nearly finished us off. He wasn't a
sleeper and didn't sleep through the night until he was two. He was extremely squirrelly and into everything
from the moment he learned to crawl. He was a wanderer. For about three years, my husband had to sleep
downstairs on the couch and I slept upstairsthis was to make sure we had a set of ears on each floor so
�we would be awakened if he started "cooking" or, my worst fear, letting himself out into a subzero
Minnesota night. When he was three, my husband and I made the difficult decision that we were done with
toddlers. We decided we would feel really accomplished if our son made it to adulthood successfully.
We went through all of the factors individually, and sometimes painfully. We were good parents, and if we
could have a guarantee that Baby #2 would be of calm temperament, we could manage it. But life offers no
guarantees. We had to make a decision based on known facts at the time. We were maxedout. If we had a
second child as squirrelly as our first, we would be quite overwhelmed. As it turns out, the same
characteristics that made our son so active are the same that feed his incredibly quick wit, his critical
thinking skills and his intellectual curiosity. But what were we to know back then?
The book is replete with selftests that prospective parents can use to help themselves think through this
important decision. I wish I had been able to read this book twenty years ago when I was facing this
quandary. We still would have made the same decision, but we would have been more informed as to what
we were doing and would have done less secondguessing ourselves.
Dr. Singer has some informative videos on YouTube, too. It's a helpful book!
The author welcomes your feedback. Contact him directly with questions and comments at
dralansinger@aol.com or visit his website at www.FamilyThinking.com .
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In this election cycle, for the first time in my adult life, family planning issues are front and center. I never expected contraception to be part of the political discourse, especially contraception practiced by a married couple. I can't think of a more personal--or more important--decision for couples to consider. Whether parents are in red states or blue states, this choice has social, ethnic and religious influences that are very, very strong. One of our NCFR members just wrote a book to help people think though this crucial decision.
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Nicked by Occam's Razor
by Nancy Gonzalez, CFLE
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | June 03, 2009
Family life and running a household has occasionally driven me to the brink, particularly when we had a
small child. It still gets overwhelming at times when we are trying to balance work and other commitments.
What I have found is that "the little things" can provide a steady dripdripdrip irritation that sometimes
seems as exasperating as larger troubles. In the past couple of years, I've made a conscious effort to "keep
it simple." There's a principle in Philosophy called Occam's Razor, named after William Ockham, who was a
brilliant philosopher but evidently did not know how to spell. Occam's Razor states basically that "the
simplest explanation for something is probably the most accurate." It's also stretched to include the idea
that "keeping it simple" makes good sense. Quoting from Wikipedia, "Originally a tenet of the reductionist
philosophy of nominalism, it is more often taken today as a heuristic maxim (rule of thumb) that advises
economy, parsimony, or simplicity, often or especially in scientific theories."
My take on Occam's Razor is twofold; In my world, my goal is to 1) eliminate as many trifling irritations as
possible, and 2) when I must carry out some task, I keep it as simple as I can. This has really helped my
stress level. Let me give a couple of examples.
One annoyance that used to drive me to the edge was locating the remote controls. They were always lost.
Someone would walk off with it absentmindedly and leave it in another room. Or it would fall under the sofa
cushions. Unlike the cordless phone, they do not have a "page" locator button that beeps. Hunting for
remotes just whipped me into a frenzy. I preached daily about keeping it on the coffeetable in front of the
sofa, but I was wasting my breath. Then I got a fabulous idea.
I bought a wooden cutting board that's approximately the size of a standard piece of paper, 8 ½ X 11. It is
about ½ inch thick. I got some adhesive Velcro® from the hardware store and glued the remote to this large
chunk of wood that wouldn't fall under the sofa cushions. The remote is now too big to carry to the next
room or stuff into a drawer. With Velcro®, the remote can be detached to change the batteries, but
otherwise the bond is secure. Problem solved!
Another needless irritation was trying to educate my husband and son about the difference between a
dishrag and a hand towel. A dishrag is square, it's used for wiping counters and it's approximately 9" X 9".
A hand towel is rectangular and it's for drying hands. It's about 20" X 10" or so. Invariably, when the guys
needed to wipe the counters, they would reach into the linen drawer and pull out the first cloth they saw
which, half the time, was the bigger hand towel. Then they would wipe the counters and leave a huge,
nasty, sopping wet towel in the sink. I was furious. Again, harping and carping got me nowhere. It was time
to make an end run around themI got rid of ALL the hand towels in the house. Now when the guys reach
into the linen drawer, they only find dishrags, and they don't know the difference. Make no mistakeI'm
grateful they wipe up the counters. But now I have eliminated the problem. What joy!
�If I had to give some advice to young housekeepers just starting out, I would advise them to stop and think
about ways in which they could make a bothersome situation completely avoidable. I swearnagging and
frustration probably went down 20% when I started thinking this way. Bathroom light left on all the time?
Have a timed switch installed that shuts the light off after 15 minutes. Can't keep a pen next to the phone?
Make up a chain or shoelace tether that prevents it from growing legs. I am "a place for everything and
everything in its place" person. But I live with two people who aren't. Establishing just a few of these simple
household systems have kept me from going crazy.
Finally, I have learned that there are some things I just need to put under lock and keyitems that will
disappear if they aren't nailed down. The guys mean well. They love and respect me and intend to return
my possessions. But they get sidetracked... So I have a drawer with a combination lock. Here I store my
small kit of precision tools, my good scissors, tape, superglue, clippers, $20 emergency pizza delivery
money, my small stash of chocolate (shhh!) and a several more items that I don't want to tear the house
apart looking for. [Sigh and smile]. My morale went up and my blood pressure went down.
Take my advice. Don't lose another remote! Never search for a Phillipshead screwdriver again! And
whatever you donever be without Occam's Razor.
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New mammography newswhat's best for breasts?
by Nancy Gonzalez, CFLE
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | November 19, 2009
These past couple of days, there has been a firestorm of reaction to the new recommendations just released from the U.S. Preventive
Services Task Force about mammography and breast health.
Briefly, the newest recommendations state that routine mammography is not necessary for women under age 50. There are other
recommendations, but among those that surprised me the most is the recommendation that teaching breast selfexamination should be
brought to an end as well. Beginning as a teenager, I have had it pounded into my head that once a month we were supposed to examine our
breasts in the shower.
Disclaimer: NCFR is not a medical organization, and we do not disseminate any recommendations outside of our professional organization's
areas of expertise. As a blogger, I have no medical credentials either. I will give no medical advice. However, I do have two breasts
which entitles me to have an opinion... and to be just as confusedand angryas any other woman.
Even though NCFR is not in the cancer screening business, cancer is a family matter. I thought that it might be helpful to collect some of the
official sources of information as well as some of the commentary from other organizationsand from women themselvesfor the convenience
of our members, so that the information is accessible from one site.
Here is the actual information from the US Preventive Task Force (USPTF) that touched off the controversy:
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstf/uspsbrca.htm#summary
Here is a CNN story about it: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/16/mammography.recommendation.changes/index.html
Here is how the American Cancer Society is weighing inthey are resisting the change:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MED/content/MED_2_1x_American_Cancer_Society_Responds_to_Changes_to_USPSTF_Mammography_Guidelines.asp
Here is the official position of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), whose protocols will also remain unchanged:
http://www.acog.org/from_home/Misc/uspstfResponse.cfm
ACOG has a good summary of the rationale for the USPTF's change: that having routine mammography has its own risks... "the harms
assessed by the USPTF were radiation exposure, falsepositive and falsenegative results, overdiagnosis, pain during procedures, and
anxiety, distress, and other psychologic responses." Even breast self examination has "risks": women feel what they perceive as a lump and
it requires mammographyand then the resultant radiation, false results, biopsies and several days of fright. However, ACOG's official position
after the USPTF's news was that ACOG's recommendations will not be changing.
I understand the basics of statistical assessment of this issue, and that epidemiology is based on numbers from the aggregate of studying a
huge number of women. That doesn't mean that each of us doesn't have a half dozen anecdotes of a friend, neighbor or coworker, under age
50, who found her own malignant lump or had it picked up on a mammogram. This "anecdotal evidence" is pretty emotionallycharged.
Without mammography in her early 40s, I would not have one of my dearest friends today. One of my aunts found her lump herself. However,
I am one who had the kind of results the USPTF is concerned aboutI had a suspicious lump found by mammogram at age 45. I had a core
biopsy (not painful), but I did have several days of official freakout waiting for the results.
What is causing me more freakout now is the confusion. Across all of these organizations that we are supposed to trust, there is no
consensus. Surprisingly, I am reading very little about using a women's family history as a factor in the decision. Worse yet, I worry about the
implications these new recommendations may have about insurance coverage for screening for those whose doctors recommend it.
ACOG notes that although heart disease is the highest risk for death in women, "surveys have shown that women are more concerned about
their risk of breast cancer than heart disease, which is more common." We are concerned. In my opinion, trying to keep us from unnecessary
worry is a moot point. We already worry. Women don't run races and sport pink ribbons for nothing. The website of the "pink ribbon" people
Susan Komen for the Cureoffers perhaps the most calm and compassionate assessment of the controversy.
http://ww5.komen.org/KomenNewsArticle.aspx?id=6442451500 .
What am I going to do? I'm going to listen to my doctor.
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These past couple of days, there has been a firestorm of reaction to the new recommendations just released from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force about mammography and breast health.
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The Newfoundland angels of 9/11
By Nancy Gonzalez, CFLE
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | September 12, 2012
Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of 9/11. I heard Rudy Giuliani last
night on CNN’ s Anderson Cooper’s 360 show. Giuliani, who was mayor
of New York City that day, called it the “worst day and the best day.”
The worst is obvious. But the best part—if we can permit ourselves to
look for any silver lining at all—is all the stories of people living up to
their Better Angels, in New York and elsewhere. One such story was
what happened on 9/11/2001 in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada.
Rather than explain the event in detail, I will place some links here—
others have reported on it better than I can. Briefly, when the order
went out that day to clear the American air space, flights en route to the
U.S. were turned back or ordered to land at the first opportunity. Many transatlantic flights were directed to
land as soon as possible in Canada. For 38 airplanes and its some 6,700 passengers, a little community
called Gander became the host to an instant crowd. People exited the planes with the clothes on their
back. They had no food, medication or shelter—indeed—since they had no access to media, most were not
even aware of why they were landing outside the U.S.
The people of Gander provided a miracle. They opened their homes, churches, schools and businesses.
They housed, fed and cared for thousands of unannounced guests for 3 5 days. Correction: make that
frightened and bewildered guests. Citizens from many countries were honorary Canadians that week. That
tiny airport landed 38 planes safely and expertly. They set up phone banks so that passengers could make
comfort calls to assure loved ones they were safe. And they didn’t charge anyone a dime for it. Here are
some great links to read about it:
From the Gander airport website.
On the famous mythbusting website, snopes.com, the story is summarized, and they have a few
grateful sentiments captured from the passengers.
Prefer seeing a video of the event? Tom Brokaw narrates the one here.
Remembering 9/11 is always tough. The profound sadness began with the crash into the first tower. Many
of us thought it a tragic accident. When the second plane hit, it was clear it was no accidentthen add
revulsion to the sadness. Still, one has to keep perspective. There were 19 hijackers. But there were
10,000 residents of Gander, Newfoundland. There is much more good in the world than evil. Incidentally,
for anyone who has to explain 9/11, terrorism or war to children, Purdue University’s “Purple Wagon” has
some great resources.
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<p>Hello! I'm NCFR's blogger, Nancy Gonzalez. I am the former director of public affairs for NCFR<em>.</em> I have a Master's in Family Life Education from the University of Minnesota, and I'm a Certified Family Life Educator. I'm married to a great guy named George, a software engineer, and mother to our college age son, Eric. Our family also consists of a Border Collie named Beau and two calico kitties, Shelley and Shirley. I knew I wanted to study families at age 16. My blog is entitled <em>"The N = 1 Experiment"</em> to emphasize that my "findings" are anecdotal and therefore are my "1 person reflections." The topics I write about are based on the family studies field, my own family, current events, memoir and humor. Its contents are my opinion and my responsibility alone and not the official position of NCFR as an organization. I invite your comments!</p>
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Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of 9/11. I heard Rudy Giuliani last night on CNN' s Anderson Cooper's 360 show. Giuliani, who was mayor of New York City that day, called it the "worst day and the best day." The worst is obvious. But the best partif we can permit ourselves to look for any silver lining at allis all the stories of people living up to their Better Angels, in New York and elsewhere. One such story was what happened on 9/11/2001 in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada.
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Nancy Will Sort
by Nancy Gonzalez, CFLE
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | June 20, 2008
My mother died on March 25. It's just now that my siblings and I are going though her belongings. She told
us we couldn't begin sorting it until after she died. Box upon box has been in storage while she was in long
term care. And I do mean boxes. After we invited her friends to sort through things and take anything they
wanted, and after we salvaged anything for recycling or charity, we still needed seven VW Beetlesized
dumpsters to dispatch the rest. It wasn't just her stuff; my father had died 18 years ago, and she still had a
lot of his things, mostly obsolete or broken. He had a carpenter's level that had all the bubble liquid drained
out of it. He had CB radio equipmentI didn't even know what it was. My engineer husband had to identify it
for me.
Maybe it's because she was in the cohort whose childhood was shaped by the Great Depression; she was
a saver. She had old coffee cans from brands of coffee that no longer exist. There were dozens and dozens
of used Cool Whip containers. She had a box approximately 2 X 2 X 3 that was completely filled with
buttons! She had them separated by color in subcontainers. (Does anyone out there need hundreds of
buttons?) There were enough stuffed animals to fill a standard elevator car up to my waist. This is probably
the best example of her penchant for saving; she still had three books of WW II ration stamps with several
coupons still left. Ironically, these I'm keeping.
She must have known she was failing, because she'd spent time labeling her treasures. Almost all the
items marked "Save" were not worth saving, such as a set of castiron fry pans, which went to the scrap
metal recycler. There were afghans with unraveling yarn. Chipped teacups and saucers. Clothes that
supposedly had "lots of wear left in them" but instead had setin stains and stretchedout, crumbling elastic.
She must have had every Christmas and birthday card she'd ever received, many of which were signed by
people I'd never heard of; any of the familiar signees were long since passedon. There were lots of faded
plastic flowers. And perfumes that smelled like insect repellant. Then there were the weird vases. She had
a vase she prized that was in the shape of a peacock. It was mottled turquoise in color and one of the
ugliest pieces of pottery I've ever seen. I don't know how many times she said, "Don't throw that out!" We
threw it out.
What has become painfully apparent is that the things we collect in our lifetime, unless it's Sotheby's
material, will not be prized by anyone else. My husband collects slide rules. There probably are few people
under 50 who even know what these are. I collect some weird things such as old kitchen utensils from the
1930s; the ones with the red, wooden handles. My grandmother (whom I adored) used these, and so I
associate them with her. They're scrap metal to anyone else. Even things with a dollar value may get
junked by someone else. I used to have an impressive collection of dishes, over 200 pieces, of vintage
Fiestaware. This stuff fetches top dollar on Ebay. About 5 years ago, I asked my son "When I pass on, what
will you do with my Fiesta dishes?" He said, (I'm not kidding) "I'm going to use them for skeet practice." I
�sold them. Smart aleck. I got the last laugh: he was impressed when an antiques dealer gave me a check
for $2000.00 for them.
There are still three big boxes of Mom's stuff to sort through that I won't have time to tackle until prime
indooractivity weather next winter. They are full of papers, photos, memorabilia and ephemera that contain
Godonlyknows what. When I opened these boxes, there was a curious note on the top of each of their
contents: "Nancy will sort." I know why she assigned this to me. I'm the only one who will look at each photo
and skim each document. Of her four kids, I am the one whom God endowed with the tug of the
sentimental. My sibs are all of sterling character, each is a credit to the human race and I adore them all.
But they would've thrown everything out, including the WWII ration coupons. I got the sentiment; they got
the smarts.
There are still a couple of my dad's possessions that I didn't have the heart to tossyet. He caught two
enormous Walleyed Pikes in Minnesota's Lake of the Woods in 1967 and '68, weighing in at 10.5 and 11.2
pounds, respectively. They are taxidermystuffed and mounted and ready to go on the wall of some
sportsman's cabin. He didn't know my middle name or my birthday, but he could proudly recite the catch
dates and weights of these fish at a moment's notice. The first person who tells me he or she would
appreciate them, gets them.
Sorting through parents' possessions is difficult; when there are fond memoriesand also when there were
none. My father was emotionally unreachable. And I thought my mother wasuntil my sister found a strange
manila folderthat she almost threw out. My whole life, there didn't seem to be much I did that made her
happy. She thought my gregarious personality and facility with humor were unladylike. Against her wishes, I
didn't go into nursing and instead majored in psychology and then a Master's in Family Life Education.
Every decision I made was wrong, and she always let me know. I thought I was one of her life's biggest
embarrassments.
Then I opened the mysterious manila folder. It was a file on me. It had my undergraduate transcript (with
the psychology major!) and several of my published oped articles (mostly humor!) During the 47 years we
were both on earth, she couldn't tell me that it was OK to study the liberal arts or to laugh uproariously.
What a pity. She must have known I would write about all of this someday, and perhaps even wanted me to,
because she told meunsoliticedthat that I could write about her after she was gone.
My lessons learned? Get rid of stuff. Out of curiosity, I just priced mom's favorite peacock vase on Ebayit's
listed at $14.99 and has no bids. By the time I'm 65, the redhandled utensils and the slide rules will be
gone. My only child is not sentimental. If I wrote "Eric will sort" inside a box, he would think it's his mother's
posthumous joke and enjoy one last laugh on me as he heaves it into a dumpster. "Oh that Mom! She was
a firecracker!"
Most importantly, I learned not to leave anything unsaid. If you love someone, say it. If you're proud of a
friend or family member, tell 'em. Don't keep it in an undisclosed manila file. In the rush to the estate saleor
the dumpsterthere's a good chance it might get tossed unopened. There are just not many Nancys who will
sort.
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My wedding ring tells a story
By Nancy Gonzalez, CFLE
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | September 15, 2011
Yesterday was my 26th wedding anniversary. I posted it to Facebook
and was overwhelmed by 33 "thumbs up" and 24 comments. It was
fabulous to be showered with well wishes from my community.
A funny thing happened to me a few months ago that drove home the
fact that I had been married a long time. Last winter I had to take my
wedding ring into the shop for a repair. I wear my ring 24/7. After I left
my ring at the jewelers, I glanced at my hand. I had a dent! Nine of my
pudgy fingers look like breakfast pork links. But in the 10th one, in the
spot where my ring sits, there is an indentation that does not fill out when I take my ring off. My finger has
grown around the ring; it has permanently changed my hand.
And it's permanently changed me. Mark Twain said it best, "Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of
all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a
century."
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My wedding ring has changed me in an unexpected way. So has my marriage.
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My second anniversary
by Nancy Gonzalez, CFLE
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | October 26, 2009
Shortvery shortblog today.... just to say that I just passed my 2nd anniversary of blogging. Thanks to
Jason Samuels, our IT Manager, who dragged me into the blogosphere kicking and screaming and to an
anonymous friend who encouraged me to start writing. Thanks to our visitors who have grown to 6700 per
month. I always love hearing from you. If you have an idea for a blog topic, let's hear it! Drop me a line at
nancygonzalez at ncfr dot org.
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Short--very short--blog today.... just to say that I just passed my 2nd anniversary of blogging.
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My Pizza Parlor Ph.D.
by Nancy Gonzalez, CFLE
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | November 13, 2008
The annual NCFR conference was fabulous, as they all are. However,
Little Rock 2008 will stand out in my memory forever. This was the
conference at which I earned my double cheese doctorate.
Through fortunate happenstance, I was part of a group of NCFR
members that went out for pizza Friday night. This group wasn't just
any random assortment of people; these were some of my professional
heroes. My friend, Paul Amato, got the group together. We had a
rollicking good time, particularly after the wine arrived. Now here's the
part about the Ph.D.
Paul isn't just my friend, but my mentor. As I've developed
professionally and continued to define what I can offer NCFR, Paul has been the one who's adopted this
poor intellectual waif, sharing his wisdom and occasional "atta girl's" at crucial moments. He knows that I've
struggled with a bit of scholar phobia. He knows that I've been too busy as a working wife and mom to ever
turn my Master's into a Ph.D. He also knows that I am and always will be a dedicated student of the field,
nevertheless.
Sitting around the table was a veritable NCFR Who's Who... and me. Sensing my anxiety, he pulled out a
paper napkin and wrote out a diploma for me for an honorary Ph.D. in Family Studies from the "Amato,
Barber, Fincham, Fine and Pryor University." He signed it and passed it around the table for signatures
from the rest of my "committee." Paul's lovely wife Lu Kaiser, ersatz Notary Public, made it official by
signing as witness. Here is a photo of my "committee," from left to right, Frank "the Provost" Fincham, Jan
Pryor, Mark Fine, Bonnie Barber, Lu, and my "adviser," Paul. I'm the one hugging Bonnie and Lu.
from left to right, Frank
My diploma is framed and on display in my office at NCFR. It's also now my most treasured earthly
possession.
Nany's PhD on a cocktail napkin
My dear husband was so proud. He told me that if I ever want to go for a real one, he's behind me.
As a part of NCFR's institutional identity project, members were asked to identify what the organization
provides for them professionallythe consensus was that NCFR makes us feel "enlightened, affirmed and
energized." Friday night, I got a huge dollop of affirmation. On the flight home, I took my new diploma out
of my purse at least five times. I looked at it again and again, in disbelief. The guy next to me must have
�thought I was completely off my rocker; imagine sitting next to a tearyeyed woman who's staring at a
cocktail napkin.
The takehome message from today's blog for NCFR members is keep your membership current! Where
else on earth could a scholarlite, nonprofit administrator like me feel the embrace of the field's finest?
Most important is the message for nonmembers: Join NCFR. We offer CEUs... and the occasional pizza
parlor Ph.D.
Membership information is at: http://www.ncfr.org/member/info.asp
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<p>Hello! I'm NCFR's blogger, Nancy Gonzalez. I am the former director of public affairs for NCFR<em>.</em> I have a Master's in Family Life Education from the University of Minnesota, and I'm a Certified Family Life Educator. I'm married to a great guy named George, a software engineer, and mother to our college age son, Eric. Our family also consists of a Border Collie named Beau and two calico kitties, Shelley and Shirley. I knew I wanted to study families at age 16. My blog is entitled <em>"The N = 1 Experiment"</em> to emphasize that my "findings" are anecdotal and therefore are my "1 person reflections." The topics I write about are based on the family studies field, my own family, current events, memoir and humor. Its contents are my opinion and my responsibility alone and not the official position of NCFR as an organization. I invite your comments!</p>
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