Worry doesn’t get a holiday
I knew all those years of selfishly tossing aside those urban legend chain letter e-mails that warned of dire consequences if I did not forward said chain letter to dozens of my friends posthaste would come to haunt me.
Wonder years
As her daughter prepares to graduate from law school, Kym Seabolt reflects on the day she registered her for kindergarten and the woman she's become.
Doing time in tiny chairs
Few things strike greater fear in the parental heart than these: parent-teacher conferences. Highly educated adults, captains of industry, even veterans of foreign wars can be reduced to puddles of insecurity at the very prospect of conferring with their child's teacher.
Time to stop ‘state hate’
Kymberly Foster Seabolt highlights all the reasons rural "flyover country" is wonderful, and calls for an end to state hate.
At the top of one pinnacle, looking toward the next
As her youngest child enters the second semester of senior year, Kymberly Foster Seabolt looks back with fondness and forward with anticipation.
Surviving the ’70s
In the wise words of a fellow Gen X childhood survivor “we didn’t go home unless a bone was sticking out, someone was unconscious … or it was time to eat.”
New faces at the kids’ table
I am proud - if a bit startled - to report that my younger cousin brought her own baby to Thanksgiving dinner this year.
Empty nest
Kym Seabolt's children are growing up and moving out. She reflects on how their spaces in her house have changed, but the meaning of home hasn't.
Putting on a show builds character
Putting on a school performance takes hard work, long hours and builds character.
Do you want food with that toy?
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt takes a look at the connection between kids' meals, fast-food toys, and adult behavior.
