Adding to the class menagerie
As usual, our family remains committed to causing highly educated and supremely dedicated professionals seriously doubt their career of choice.
Can’t stand the heat? Stay out of summer
Summer is a favorite of so many for one obvious reason: it is the one season when total disintegration of social mores is completely acceptable.
Lock-down in a worry-free world
Apparently, my children are attending spy school. That is the only explanation for why I, the consummate prying parent, am so completely in the dark about what it is they DO all day.
Soccer mom confessions
I am the mother I warned myself about. In all those blissful early years of having children (babies, really), I had big plans to do very little.
He’s too young to be stuck in the middle
Despite my repeated attempts to make them listen to reason, our otherwise excellent school district suffers one fatal flaw: They think that 10-year-olds belong in middle school.
Life Out Loud: It came in through the window
The devil is in my house. It came in through a window, like most burglars do, gaining entry to our inner sanctum and stealing my pride without my knowledge or consent.
Parenting imperfect people
Every once in a very great while I receive the kind of mail that says something along the lines of "Your family is so...
Mr. Fix-It and Mrs. Breaker
Victory red, jet black leather interior, spoiler, sunroof and looked almost as sharp as the day it rolled of the showroom floor and into...
Packing the power of Peeps
Easter without Peeps is almost unthinkable. How did they gain such a foothold on things?
Love beyond measure: Wine glasses for weddings, mugs for marriage
It's just an old coffee mug, but for columnist Kym Seabolt, it's a symbol of wedded bliss: slightly worn, slightly comforting, but always present.
