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,…
Author: Paula Peters Chambers
Paula Peters Chambers
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, the pickleball craze, and most recently, the Virginia Rep Center for Arts and Education. An empty-nester mother of three, she lives in the West End and is happiest when the kids fly home for visits.
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.…
