In the glow of the tree's Light Emitting Diodes, Ittybit's cheeks blazed crimson and her eyes glistened … Her brother was alr...

I hadn't expected to bring my kids to school that day. I'd planned to send them off with the bus just as I had every Mond...

My head was spinning. There we were, the four of us, driving to the mall to do the unthinkable: purchase an electronic table...

The boy has circled every toy in the catalog. Every. Single. Toy. Each one is ringed in a different color. Red, it seem...

First clue: Ittybit was unusually quiet. The kind of quiet I remember vividly from my youth. The kind of quiet that usually means hur...

My kids jumped around me as if on springs. “Did you see me cartwheel?” asked one. “Did you see me do a headstand?” the other interjected....

You hear it all the time: “People like him …” “Someone like her ...” I say it, too. Generalizations. It's how we...

He came downstairs from his lair the morning after the elections and rubbed his eyes. Hair sticking up all over. It looked as if ...

I know there are so many more problems in the world than as-it-happens news coverage of major natural disasters. But as large swa...

Out after dark. On a school night. I can remember it like yesterday. It was pitch black. Music was playing somewhere off ...