She was sitting behind the curtain, in the closet, on a stool. Sulking. She didn't want to play with her friend. More specifically, she ...

Papa arrived promptly at 8:30 a.m. She was packed and ready. She'd been awake for hours, giddy with anticipation of her first swimming l...

Let's be forthright, shall we? Moms -- stay-at-home or not -- don't really get summer vacations, now, do they? There's always a ...

Oh sure, you may think tractor pulls, demolition derbies, rides, exhibits and games of chance when someone mentions "county fair,"...

The permanent record. Just thinking about writing everything down ... every little burp and hiccup ... makes my palms sweat. Like all parent...

I'm back in high school. At my age it's just humiliating to have to return because of a mistake. It seems I am one credit short of g...

Have you heard about August 8th? That would be "National Sneak Some Zucchini On Your Neightbors' Front Porch" night. Easily on...

As I got to the midway point beads of sweat collected on my forehead. Ten years ago one winter I'd reached this very spot on the bridge ...

When my husband asked me if I heard about the new study that claims obesity is a social disease, my first response was "I don't buy...

Before the engine stopped the door of the house swung open and she was headed my way, arms outstretched. My mother-in-law didn't need to...

I just wanted to get through the checkout line. It was the first time I'd been away from Champ in nine months and three weeks and I want...

Where has my baby gone? It seems as if Ittybit has grown up overnight. The three days I was away in the hospital, lounging around in the oh-...

I'm typing one-handed from bed. This time around I find the 'mothering' aspects of newborn life to be relatively easy while the...

When the television went black on Sunday, June 10, I hauled my 9-month pregnant body off the couch, waving my arms in protest. “I can’t beli...

"I have bad news and I have worse news," the man on the telephone said. It was the furniture store calling to tell me that the dre...

I am a worrier. Some people call me a hypochondriac, but I just think I’m extremely sensitive to minute physical changes. Of course, you ge...

If you have the misfortune of suffering through Playhouse Disney’s "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" on Sunday mornings (like I do) you alr...

"That's definitely a foot," the doctor laughs as she pushes on the left side of my abdomen. "And I think he's moved i...

The conjurer was cunning. Dressed in khaki slacks and a checked shirt, he didn’t much look like a magician at all. His act was missing all t...

Repeat after me: Don't get attached to things. Let things attach to you. Say it again with me. You can't go to Target and swing a ...