On cultural appropriation vs. celebration, I would like to say that we have said a lot recently on the subject of appropriation but not...

“About that assignment,” and I see my son shrink in the backseat. Which, considering he’s almost six feet tall is quite a feat. ” Did you...

I now have two middle schoolers. Before school even began, my daughter excitedly discussed all the things she wanted to do to her locker....

There’s a wobble in his voice, “I don’t know, I just wanted to do more stuff.” My son and daughter are currently camping in California...

Last week we were in the home of some acquaintances. You know when adults and kids are kind of forced into mingling situations. Adults...

I purposely didn’t write a story on Valentine’s Day. Not because I’m anti-Valentines, though I am, but because this year I didn’t even...

I’m in a “So What?” stage of life right now. Do you know this one? It’s that niggling feeling in the back of your mind that tells you to...

If you know anything about me or have read any of my posts in the past, you know that Valentines is not my favorite holiday. So, when I...

I belong to a small women’s group that ranges in life experience from the very young to those that have grown children and everything in...

Recently, while he and I were discussing my gratitude he confessed that his indulgence of my whim is not completely unselfish….what?  I...

Be Nice – You put two of any creature together in tight quarters and there will be repercussions.  Sometimes that means good things...

This is what we need, to fill our our children with love, breathe it into them so that it overflows.  We need them to feel so intensely...

Instead, I was standing, hands on my hips telling a six year old girl that in the future she should probably not climb onto a chair then...

Yesterday while shopping, my daughter saw an awful princess chair.  It was plastic and gaudy and ugly.  To her it was a dream.  She had...

My Mother tells a story of when she and my Dad were first married.  While looking for a job, he was browsing through the want ads and...

My sister is having a baby in a couple weeks.  She’s my little sister.  I remember her sitting in the dirt making bottle cap mud pies....