People for Less Unrest in Marriage (PLUM) -- a completely imaginary think tank developed and contained within the folds of my min...

She didn't even sense the danger as she sat there in the living room, dipping her hand into an open bag of snacks. Over ...

I lovehate the family ski weekend. The second annual of which swooshed down its southern Vermont mountain of ice and gale-fo...

She huffed and puffed and rolled her eyes but alas, her mother had become a brick house. Immovable. “You're so mean!” th...

I grunted. Couldn't help it. Honestly.  There we were, waiting in line at a sandwich shop for an out-of-the-ordinar...

Zombification. Bat, bat, bat. Purrrrrrrrrr. It starts with soft paws at first, then a sandpapery tongue. Can you ...

Most mornings, I wake up to the sounds of breakfast already in progress: Pans shifting on the stove, cereal tumbling into hard pl...

I knew exactly what to expect. We'd walk into a den of iniquity laid out like a user-friendly kitchen of the most though...

I had just left the room for a moment. A millisecond to be exact. I didn't even see the wrapping come off the package, which ...

I can't find my Christmas spirit. I've looked for it everywhere. Somehow it's just gone missing. I hope t...

Outside, the world looked like a juggled snow globe. Fat flakes swirl around in icy water, frantically at first and then slo...

My friend had just arrived. We had made plans to brave the cold and go for a brief jog through the neighborhood. … But I was...

Growing up, my family sat around the Thanksgiving table, bowed our heads and said grace: Bless us Oh Lord and these thy gifts … ...

What was I thinking? Bringing two cats to the veterinarian at the same ... Don't answer that. There was no time for that...

Dinner was over, the kids had scattered, but we adults sat silently in place with our hands protecting the remaining swallows of our stem...

It was an epiphany. And it hit me like a cartoon train. In a dressing room, at the mall, with a woman standing outside th...