Zombified, Ittybit sat staring at the T.V. watching a pint-sized prodigy perform a song from Phantom of The Opera. The little girl, Jackie E...

The guest room was awash in orangey-pink light. "Sunrise never ceases to amaze me," I thought to myself as I dragged my broom past...

"He was a Wego man but he didn't have arms, so my mom got me a new Wego man who did have arms, but I didn't wike his hair. I to...

I push on the door. It silently protests. It doesn't want to budge. I press harder against its panels, feeling as if I'm trying to m...

Birthday breakfast made by a seven-year-old and delivered at the crack of dawn with the help of her father. Check. French toast and hot coff...

"Mommy! Mommy! Guess what I found!" She was gently cupping something in her dirt-ground hands. And I was afraid. I hope whatever i...

Ah. Modern times. Or are they Post Modern? We're probably beyond all that at this point. Ah, yes, I checked with Wikipedia. We're st...

Where were you when you heard commercial airline planes had crashed into the World Trade Center? Or the Pentagon? Or that that one had crash...

"Are we there yet? When will we get there? Are we there yet? "How far have we gone? Are we there yet?" "Yes! We're ...

In the blink of an eye the mystery of Easter was forever mangled by the silver screen: The Easter Bunny (or E.B. as he's known in the di...

I couldn't sell ice water in hell, and not because my conscience prevents me from profiting from another person's pain. In fact, I...

The next order of business: The purchase of a ground-based structure resembling an aviation contraption in which many children can play at d...

She couldn't keep her hands out of her hair. Or maybe she couldn't extract her hands from her hair. Her knotted, bedraggled hair. Re...

Ittybit was brimming with excitement. When I got home from work she greeted me at the door holding a familiar drawing, enhanced with new and...

I had imagined parents the world over have been quietly slipping their children’s artwork in with the recycling — saving only the most preci...

I took a left when I should have taken a right. I was out of my element, more than an hour from home and it was dark. As I turned I'd ...

We can tell ourselves "parenting isn't a job it's a relationship" and other philosophical truths. But we all know it's...

I could see it in the doctor's eyes as he wondered what symptoms had brought us in. I was wasting his time. No fever? No sore throat? No...

I wish we could all share in the true sentiment of primary school Valentines. When we are in primary school the beauty of its simplicity is ...

There is nothing more loathsome than that note home from school ... You know the one. It's sitting in your kid's bag just waiting to...