Parents Day at College

Robin and Doug are going to visit their son David during Parents Day at the college at which he's a freshman.



David is in the marching band. Although Doug is an avid football fan (having played in college at Kalamazoo College), Robin is not. But they are both eager to see the marching band performance at halftime.

A student's freshman year at college is tenuous. Dropout rates are highest during the freshman year. When parents take the time to visit their children at college, even if it's only once or twice during their freshman year, it speaks volume to the young college student. It's a clear sign of support. So, check out when Parents Day is and visit your children attending college.

Be Careful What You Ask For

We're writers. We like to write. We dream of selling books and signing publishing contracts. So, with two book contracts in one week, you'd think we're on Cloud 9. Well, we are, but that doesn't mean we're feeling maximum overload. Think about it. Doug has just sold his first mystery novel, The Dead Guy, to a wonderful new publisher, Aberdeen Bay Publishing. As the writing team of Doug and Robin, we've contracted for a book about college funding, based on the fact that we have five children in higher education and we're not paying a dime and neither are our kids!

But be careful what you ask for. The deadline for Doug's rewrite (and there is a request from the publishing company for a revision) is about three weeks. But at least it's a completed manuscript. For the scholarship book, we have plenty of notes, but other than that, we're starting from scratch. And we have a deadline of a couple of months on that. Yikes. We love to write and we've dreamed of having these opportunities, but for the moment time is stretching us so thin that we're becoming translucent. And don't even ask us about the transparencies nightmares.

Just kidding.

We're having a good time. Expect more updates soon.

Doug and Robin
www.HewittsBooks.com

A Parent's and Grandparent's Greatest Gift

We were watching a new show the other day. It was called Huckabee, and of course the show featured the former Arkansas governor, Mike Huckabee. During the show, Mike Huckabee took questions from the audience. A father-to-be asked for advice on how to be a good parent. After a bit of stumbling, Mike Huckabee hit it on the head. The greatest gift you can give, he said, is your time. Never forget that.



We agree.