Day Care For All

Over the years, while checking out camps or extra curricular classes for my children, I've often murmured, "I wanna come here. Why aren't there camps for moms, for me?"

There should be camps, opportunities, daycares for all. My idea is an a la carte of migrating opportunities. Where a person could drop over Norm's to learn woodworking. Visit Bobby for chess; Brenda for fire building and remodeling 101 -- a hands on experience. Ronda is great with parenting tips and bantering about volunteer and educational opportunities. Steven's would be a great place to get the darker and deeper plot tips. Or make your way to Martha's for decorating ideas. Groups would set up walking dates, or music jamming gigs. Imagine all those tucked away instruments emerging from the over 40 closets and making melodies once again. Imagine the fun. Visualize the laughter, and you have all those wonderful camp experiences of old.

And for those dayswhen the hormone dip stick registers quite low there would be mommy day care. A place where moms are greeted with warm hug, simmering soup, and a fire. Severe cases might require knitting, warming up the vocal chords singing with the dogs, or a forced up hill march contemplating what to do with all those little bags of doggy doo.

It should be a right. Right up there with liberty and justice for all.