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Break out the paint brushes! Publisher TERRIE GOLDSTEIN publisher@excitingread.com Editor BRITTANY L. MORGAN editor@excitingread.com Art Director JESSICA PAKENHAM design@excitingread.com Media Advisor ROANNE PATTERSON sales@excitingread.com Editorial Assistant MERLYN AKHTAR makhtar@excitingread.com also publishers of NY Travel Guide Hudson Valley Parent is published monthly by: The Professional Image Marketing & Public Relations Inc. 174 South Street Newburgh, NY 12550 Phone: 845-562-3606 Fax: 845-562-3681 hvparent.com This publication is copyrighted by the publisher. Reproduction without written permission of the publisher is prohibited. Hudson Valley Parent welcomes submissions, although we cannot accept responsibility for work submitted nor guarantee publication. AUDITED BY 6 Hudson Valley Parent A MEMBER August 2013 It's August and you know what that means! It's time for our annual Enrichment Guide! This month we've devoted our magazine to after-school activities that your kids will love. See a sampling of great enrichment programs available right here in the Hudson Valley on page 14. the great ideas Laura Licata Sullivan has for celebrating summer. Tipping the scales Dan Castricone is the father of three. He runs his own insurance business, is an Orange County legislator, hosts his own radio show, and manages his son's little league team. Castricone Picasso, Da Vinci and isn't the only parent faced Editor's Van Gogh... oh my! with the task of balancing Journal family time and a I firmly believe professional life. Turn to nothing heals the soul page 26 to learn how Castricone more than breaking out a set of and other Hudson Valley parents paint brushes and taking them to a keep their family and personal life freshly stretched canvas. in order. In high school, my parents urged me to participate in local art Down with DOMA! competitions and boy am I glad they did! I actually won a few awards for my mixed media creations and for my photography. I was even the president of my school's National Art Honor Society. Art isn't the only enrichment activity available to children here in Marcia Szymanski had a hard time the Hudson Valley. Between team defining her relationship with her and individual sports, acting, singing, dancing... the list of choices partner's two children, Jacob and Mollie. is overwhelming! Marcia Szymanski was shocked This month, Dawn Marie Barhyte when she heard her partner's shares tips for choosing an daughter asked if she was really a afterschool activity your child will man. Szymanski was in a love. Turn to page 10 to see what committed relationship with a she has to say! woman named Sharon, who had Summer fun children from a previous marriage. Szymanski wasn't sure how to For the Sullivan family, summer respond. She was not the little girl's always welcomes milestones. This past summer, Laura Licata Sullivan's "Step-dad, but she wasn't her Stepmiddle son was finally able to reach mom either. In this month's magazine, Szymanski takes us the bottom of the pool without inside the lives of a lesbian couple standing on his tip-toes! trying to reason with homophobia. It seems we all have magical On page 18. Szymanski also weighs memories of summer. Why not in on the Supreme Court's July make your own memories this decision to strike down the Defense summer? Turn to page 24 to see of Marriage Act (DOMA). BRITTANY L. MORGAN