Braving the not-so-great outdoors
Pity poor Chico the Chihuahua. Chico, three whole pounds of bruiser canine muscle (aka delicious morsel) was out with his owner last week when...
On family and flying potato chips
I consider myself an "expert" on parenting on par with my "expertise" in machine gunnery or quantum physics.
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.
Armed and maybe dangerous
It was the men with guns at the door that convinced me more than anything else that I wasn't living in the suburbs anymore....
What would Jackie O. do?
I find as I age that I look to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for parenting advice.
Finding Christmas
By the time you read this, it will be Christmas.
Seabolt: Driving Miss crazy
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt laments over whether to make the switch from four-door sedan to mom mobile, better known as a van.
A new year to come undone
It's that time again. Time for the annual "How I shall completely revamp my life in the New Year" passel of lies we all pass off as "resolutions.
Paid in full. Maybe. (Doesn’t anyone want my money?)
I think I've figured out why the economy still needs a little work. No one wants to take our money anymore.
Vacations are made of mines and memories
Any old parent can take a kid to Disney World. It takes a special kind of insanity to take a child on a vacation to a coal mine.
