Changing English language without trying
Today, autocorrect on most devices has made it easy to pretend that spelling (and proofreading) doesn’t matter.
Santa has deadlines, too, so order early
Each holiday season brings certain traditions that are unavoidable. For instance, at some point in December, you're going to turn on the radio and hear The Royal Guardsman singing the Snoopy vs.
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.
Why does January have to be a bear?
January is such an unlovable month. I'm sure there are people who embrace it with pure unbridled joy, I just haven't met any of...
Don your grown-up get-ups for Halloween and every day in between
Columnist Kym Seabolt has just the Halloween costume suggestion for you adults: How about the "Sensitive Male" get-up, or the "Informed Voter" disguise?
That white chair? Just temporary insanity
What were they thinking! Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt recalls a time when home decorating didn't include brown sofas.
Carpool is life in the slowest lane
If you can read this, I have survived to write it and (blessedly) not been killed in a tragic multi-car pileup in the carpool lane.
Power to the people: My so-called pioneer life
By Day Two, when the power company was reporting that it might be a WEEK until we got power -- plucky and intrepid had morphed into a deepening sense of dread.
Christmas Crow
My husband and I are polar opposites in many, if not most, ways. He is athletic. I have two left feet and no more...
Priorities on ice
One minute you are a capable, intelligent person fully able to function in polite society. The next you have forgotten the recipe for ice...
