I know I shouldn't complain about the toils of moving, seeing as how I have not personally schlepped a box from one house to another in ...

I was all ready to pick up and hurl the first stone as Atlantic Monthly essayist Sandra Tsing Loh metaphorically suggested in her painfull...

My husband doesn’t like to be The Bad Guy, the one who always says ‘no.’ He feels he’s been pushed into wearing the black hat by Yours Truly...

No good deed goes unpunished. As a mother, I should know that. As a shopper, however, it never occurred to me. It also never crossed my mind...

I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, re...

Dear Champ, Now we are two. Well, you are two and I am trying to force myself to think of you as a person all your own. Apart from me. I did...

There are lots of people who disagree with the idea that only words used as decorative objects, forged in metal or cast in plaster, that fal...

No one should ever refer to the killer of Kansas gynecologist Dr. George Tiller as being pro-life. He wasn’t. Any person or group that resor...

Dear Ittybit, Your last "Special Day" at the Marilla Cuthbert School for Unspeakably Charming Children snuck up on me. It was the ...

Hoffman's Playland. I promised Ittybit we’d go. Blessing? Curse? I know many-a-parent (and grandparent) who are trying to avoid that par...

Mary died. She was the last of the "Great Aunts" on my mother’s side. My grandmother's baby sister. She would have been 96 on ...

It’s been quite a while since the fledgling (and wholly imaginary) organization “People for Less Unrest in Marriage,” has called upon me to ...

"It smells a little like the Bronx zoo in here," said the friend as he was walking up the stairs, sandwiched between me and the ma...

Oh, the snub. That terrible rite of passage that begins when your very bestest, bestest, bestest friend-ever pretends you don’t exist … in p...

Dear Ittybit, You slipped into the shower with me this morning, wanting your first kindergarten experience to be clean of preschool dirt, no...

When I was growing up kids (in my age-group anyway) didn't play with guns. It was a mindset that most of our parents held: guns were not...

At Christmas or a short time thereafter a box arrived on the doorstep from my father-in-law addressed to his son. Inside were two pairs of o...

My husband and I were perfectly happy with our standard-issue; single-setting; no fuss, no muss; fixed shower head. It was roughly the diame...

The Champ’s room is empty save for a trundle bed bought for a handful of dollars at a yard sale and a corner dresser filled with clothes he’...

Daylight Saving Time always makes me want to go into hibernation. It’s not that more daylight isn’t welcome or that I’m sad to see winter m...