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Yesterday, a dear friend of mine from college passed away, leaving a young teen daughter. This is an open letter I wrote for her. My dear...

My husband has been mocking me for the past 5 months because I keep saying that our daughter is teething. And I keep insisting that one of...

I love my children, and I’m a good mother, but I have a feeling that Child Protective Services will have me under surveillance before long...

I love seeing my son make connections between things. It amazes me how all of a sudden he figures out how something works, or the pattern ...

This weekend, my husband and I celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary as we have for the past two years, by spending a few days in Newpor...

Four years ago today, I married my Prince Charming in the perfect wedding. Well, MY perfect wedding, anyway. Looking back, I still wouldn’t ...

I sometimes get into lifelong feuds with inanimate objects. I know it sounds ridiculous. It sounds ridiculous because it IS ridiculous. And ...

My son loves to dance. So much so that he will often spontaneously break into dancing without warning. Yesterday at gymnastics, we had to wa...

This weekend was an especially busy one. My husband left for a retreat at the crack of dawn on Friday morning and got home late Saturday nig...

The principle commonly referred to as “Occam’s Razor” states, basically, that the best explanation of a situation or the best solution to a ...

The word “poetry” immediately brings to mind Miss Kelly’s 7 th grade class, and memorizing dozens of poems, most notably John Masefield’s p...

I have the noisiest sleeping baby on the face of the earth. You look at the sleeping angel face with the long lashes, soft skin, fluffy dow...

Last night, my husband and I took both kids out to dinner with us. When we got to the restaurant, a mom with two kids around my son’s age wa...

Let me preface this entry by saying that I did not actually watch the American Country Music Awards – although I do enjoy country music. And...

My son is, I admit it, not the most obedient child. Up until now, I’ve chalked it up mainly to the fact that he is a complete spaz with the ...

I was recently listening to a radio interview with a woman who had written a cookbook. She told a story about one time when her son, who was...

I’m currently in rehearsals for a play set in Dublin the early 1960s, and I’ve started looking for costumes. The first shock of that process...

My son went to daycare yesterday. So I have a confession to make: Every time he goes to daycare, I have a sudden urge to do a special projec...

Doris Day is probably more famous for her recording of the song “Que Sera, Sera” than she is for anything else she did in her long and illus...

I didn’t drink coffee in high school. I didn’t drink coffee in college. I didn’t drink coffee at my first job. I started having a cup or two...