The house is sleeping, however I am awake. I extract myself from the blankets, which have tangled during the night with the unconscious acro...

"Not another red light! That's the third one in a row. It will take six hundred years to get there," she smiles, adding a dram...

It was midnight. The cat was circling my legs. And the only noise in the house beside the occasional feline roar was the whirring of my sewi...

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. - George Bernard Shaw I...

I found this picture recently as I was searching for a travel photograph to call my favorite . It was Ittybit's first plane ride. The ye...

I unzipped the garment bag and released an explosion of white, feathery fluff. "Is this it?" I wondered trying to recall the catal...

I'm not good at being right. I don't think many of us are. Now, I'm not talking about the kind of right that takes courage. The ...

Do you know how many people don't give their pets the same consideration they would give their children when it comes to keeping them sa...

I don’t remember what things I packed, but I remember the red plaid and black vinyl, soft-sided suitcase I’d dragged to my first ever sleepo...

As soon as I saw her with the paper contraption my breath caught in my chest. Where did she get that, I wondered wordlessly when I saw the m...

"I don’t like you any more," he tells me without provocation one morning as I’m making lunches and trying to coax some breakfast i...

“A mother understands what a child does not say.” - Jewish proverb Dear Ittybit, I barely recognized your voice when you crept up behind me...

He was up to his knees in pond scum and discarded pool toys. He'd been there for most of the day. If the windows were open I'm sure ...

Faster than I could think of the word for "falling" I was hurtling backward out of the truck to the pavement below. My ankle was s...

Why is it that children never have to go when you ask them? "It’s going to be a long trip, you should use the bathroom now," I say...

I'm not sure what bullying is anymore. I'm not sure if it's a shadowy part of human nature, a rite of passage we must navigate i...

I’d forgotten all the things I’d meant to bring. The cookies I’d made were sitting on the kitchen counter and the hand-me-down baby carrier ...

He’s making the face. His nose is crinkled, his mouth askew, his eyes are so small there’s no light reflecting in them. He crosses his arms ...

"He just smacked me on the head. He needs a time out. If you don’t give him one I will." She may only be six, but she’s already a ...

It’s been years since I’ve been to a first-run movie theater. You know, the kind where you save for weeks, get a sitter, wait in line with y...