Freelance writer Paula Peters Chambers enjoys exploring a variety of topics. A regular contributor to RFM, she has written about teens and mental health, transportation safety, regional childcare resources, and most recently, the Virginia Holocaust Museum. An empty-nester mother of three, Paula lives in the West End and is happiest when the kids fly home for visits.
It started with an Instagram post of two sisters on Sibling Day. They were smiling and happy. Before long, though, the comments appeared: hahaha these @#$% losers – your sister…
Growing up in Henrico’s near West End, Carla Navarrete had plenty of family around her: her parents, an older sister, and three younger brothers. But she didn’t have her grandparents,…
Years ago, when I contemplated the spacing of our children’s births, I thought more about immediate issues than how the differences in their ages would play out down the road.…