Thursday, February 19, 2026
Kym Seabolt in a childhood sword fight.

Retro children of the 1930s-1980s went out into the world sans helmets and knee pads. Kymberly Foster Seabolt offers some insight as to how they survived.

My nemesis is small but stealthy. It lurks under the model of health but, in fact, it's a silent slayer of innocent flesh. I am speaking, of course, of the mandolin slicer.

I had cookies for dinner last night. Who over the age of 4 does that?
fitness watch

I love reasonable giving and receiving. I love the spirit of the season from beginning to end.

Having been laid out like a limp rag with a stomach bug has given me plenty of time to think. First, I think the...
book

Kymberly Foster Seabolt urges us to guard our energy and focus our gifts where they can be most useful.
Kym Seabolt's house

Kymberly Foster Seabolt contemplates the possibility of haunted houses and hopes ghosts are haunting hers.
mints

After dressing up, dancing and rediscovering butter mints, Kym Seabolt finds that youth isn’t about age, but about joy and a sweet taste of the past.
Magic eight ball

Kymberly Foster Seabolt is outsourcing decision making to her childhood version of a psychic hotline.

It's hard to know when, exactly, to proclaim an otherwise beautiful family experience a disaster, but that does seem to be the way these things go.