Jacey Eckhhart http://hamptonroads.com/taxonomy/term/114 Category: Jacey Eckhhart en-us Copyright 2008 PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:18:58 -0400 Farewell, and thanks This is my last column. Please pardon me while I break into a profuse sweat, stagger from my computer, swig a little Maalox. Because I don't really w ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/04/farewell-and-thanks Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:14:39 -0400 Comic book is a vivid picture of the mission on home front MY 6-YEAR-OLD sat at the kitchen table reading a comic book. Maybe not reading it, exactly, but looking at the pictures of trucks slamming on the bra ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/03/comic-book-vivid-picture-mission-home-front Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:51:36 -0400 High school kids stressed by pressure to have a career plan WE'RE NOT allowed to talk about it. Even though Kelsey knows that Brad and I are haunting the mailbox wishing that the rest of her college acceptance ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/03/high-school-kids-stressed-pressure-have-career-plan Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:56:25 -0400 Just asking, but how much do we really need to know? Lie still, I told myself. Breathe in. Breathe out. Maybe Brad will think you're asleep and then you can get up and get online. IT WASN'T PORN. It w ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/03/just-asking-how-much-do-we-really-need-know Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:52:38 -0400 Tourism only skims surface from Venice to the Beach ONCE UPON a time when my parents traveled to Venice, Italy, they passed under the Bridge of Sighs in a gondola. My father bent to kiss my mother, ass ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/03/tourism-only-skims-surface-venice-beach Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:48:13 -0400 Child's letter honors mom's devotion while dad was in iraq Dear Mrs. Eckhart, I am 9 years old. I have two sisters and a baby brother. My Dad is a Soldier with the Army National Guard who is deployed to Ira ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/childs-letter-honors-moms-devotion-while-dad-was-iraq Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:44:43 -0500 Writers strike finally ends, but we're all still scarred I called my friends to tell them it looks as if the writers strike has come to an end. Let's have a party! Without exception, they all thought I wa ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/writers-strike-finally-ends-were-all-still-scarred Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:18:55 -0500 A wish for my son: That he find something to fight for I AM GLAD it is not my job to teach leadership and career planning to a bunch of eighth-graders. So far this year my son Sam has come home from sch ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/wish-my-son-he-find-something-fight Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:46:11 -0500 Readers lash out at ads showing spousal mockery A COUPLE OF WEEKS ago I wrote a column about the apparent contempt shown in a recent batch of commercials. I pointed out that the appearance of conte ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/readers-lash-out-ads-showing-spousal-mockery Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:17:37 -0500 Yeah, we have lots of space, but we're not living large I have an unnamed room at the front of my house. Poor little room. I'm afraid it isn't very happy here. While all the other rooms have a purpose, t ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/01/yeah-we-have-lots-space-were-not-living-large Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:18:20 -0500