If you spent Black Friday as I did — hunkered down over my computer screen, wishing the fairies of consumerism would just kill me already an...

I was probably knee-deep in laundry or inspecting the insides of my eyelids last weekend when the social-networking site known as Twitter ex...

Ittybit loves her brother. Sometimes she loves him a little too much. Sometimes I have to exile her to her room for a little while so she ca...

Ittybit didn't like our selection at the polls. She didn't want to vote for "Rock the Bama" on Election Day. And just know...

Ittybit was pleased with herself. More accurately, she was pleased with the paper doll her teacher at the Marilla Cuthebert Academy for Unsp...

I didn’t really want to go into the “petting zoo” at the apple orchard. It never even occurred to me that I might have to despite the fact t...

My right hand was hurting. I could feel the uncomfortable pull of muscle in the meat of the palm along its outer edge. I started to worry a ...

Sometimes I feel like Andy Dufresne from the movie Shawshank Redemption, only without the dank prison walls or the murder conviction. I cert...

I just don’t understand the adage, ‘his bark is worse than his bite.’ Now I know the aphorism is meant to convey the idea that the proverbia...

As soon as I stepped from the car I could hear the hysterics. The sounds of screaming, crying and carrying on were tumbling down the stairs ...

If you happen to call out to me on the street and I don’t answer please know it’s not my intention to ignore you. It is much more likely tha...

She wants to be a veterinarian. That's what Ittybit told me in the car that morning as we drove her brother to the babysitter's hous...

He handed me the bib. It read: “Babies Sleep Safest Alone.” I took it, thanked him, and used the blue-fringed bit of cloth to clean the toil...

All of a sudden my baby disappeared. Yesterday he was comfortably nestled in my arms, happy to see the world from the safety of my embrace, ...

On a particularly sullen-looking day during our recent vacation in Maine I had a bright idea. What? I get bright ideas sometimes, don’t laug...

“I’ve been thinking about divorce a lot lately.” I could see the statement’s effect when my friend’s smile fell right off her face. “No. No....

The day had been ordinary, we all had our work cut out for us: employment responsibilities for the adults, play for the children. Nothing wa...

See if this sounds familiar: Parents are sitting on opposite ends of the couch, doing whatever it is parents do when their kids are quietly ...

Raising children offers nothing but lessons in failure. I had no idea how many times I could be wrong in a single day until I became a pare...

“Did you see me? Did you see me, ma?” I wasn’t looking. “No, darn it! I missed it! Can you do it again?” “Oh, Ok,” she says with the same di...