A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article about celebrating St. Nicholas’s feast day, and I received a lot of mail about whether or not to teach your children
This is the time of year when parenting magazines urge frazzled parents to create family traditions with their children. Anything but Crafts The articles are very helpful with detailed instructions
My family and I are struggling to absorb and find room for all the stuff that arrived with Christmas. I actually lie awake at night wondering where I am going
On a cold, foggy Saturday night, my daughter, Lauren, has her boyfriend, the Tall One, over for pizza and a movie. The kids are probably not that thrilled to spend
“You sure got a pretty little girl, there,” complimented a passerby in the Penney’s parking lot. “He’s a boy,” I tartly replied and immediately regretted. It wasn’t the well-meaning stranger’s
All of my gel pens are gone. My daughter, Lauren, must have snatched them up as she hastily packed yesterday for her junior year at Thomas Aquinas College. As a
My daughter eats eel! I knew there there would be changes for my daughter in college, but this? This is the girl who when she was eight I had to
My desk has stayed clean now for five months. It used to stay clean for maybe five hours if I was lucky. Five months ago, right before Thanksgiving, I started
When was the last time you called a large company and had a live person answer the phone? It seems impossible, but that actually happened to me when I called