Spring is fast approaching. I know this not because I can sense it in the air, or see it in the foliage, or even because the stores are stocked with shorts, tank tops and [...]
I love it when researchers make proclamations about “startling discoveries” that the rest of us have known or surmised all along. Take the one about seatbelts [...]
Back in 1996, Hilary Clinton introduced us, via her book, to the African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child.” The meaning being that the whole village [...]
My son is now in the second grade. Oh, how the years have passed? It was just yesterday he was in the first grade. Wait. never mind. I never realized how much we were alike, [...]
I have always considered it part of my responsibility as a parent to stay abreast of the current pop culture. I listen to the music my daughters enjoy, embrace their devotion [...]
Kids have it pretty good these days. I’m not talking about those $&*#% teenagers with so many piercings in their ears they have the aerodynamics of a Wiffle ball, [...]
Dear Savannah, Twenty-seven years ago, I made a horrible mistake. I got pregnant by a guy who claimed to be a wealthy ex-frat boy but turned out instead to be just a caddy [...]