I knew immediately when I saw him pawing through the sand beneath his chair that something was seriously wrong. I had been enjoying a rare moment of peace reading my book under the shade of the ...

I recently read a line in a book by one of my favorite authors, Jodi Picoult, that I believe sums up parenting: “It’s funny as a mother you think the very act of giving someone life should be enough ...

If you follow me on Facebook, you may already have heard this little anecdote about how I once again proved that this kind of stuff only happens to me. It was a typical day-rushing through getting the ...

My girls love to dance. It’s not unusual to find them dressed in crazy outfits in my older daughter’s room at night grooving to tunes on her iPod. Their stage is the ottoman. Their audience is the ...

One of my favorite parenting quotes comes from author Elizabeth Stone. She wrote, “Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around ...

The longest relationship you will have in your life is with your siblings – not your spouse, not your parents, not your children, statistically, that is. As parents, it is up to us to help nurture and ...

Raising teenagers is an emotional roller coaster — one minute they can’t wait to get away from you, the next minute they desperately need you. The latter usually involves solving a problem, making a ...

When I was growing up you graduated one time - from high school. That was the first time you got to wear a cap and gown, and if you were lucky, it wasn't the last. But these days graduations take ...

Even today, as advanced as we have become, the fix for all technical problems is to turn off whatever device is going haywire and restart it again. Surprisingly, more often than not, this works. This ...

“Mommy, how far is Boston?” my daughter asked me. “A long way,” I answered honestly. It’s hard to explain to children what goodbyes mean. I’ve said them so many times in my life. They have come with ...

I’ve written a lot about the importance of grandmothers in the wake of my mother’s death and my children’s subsequent loss, but I think it’s just as important to acknowledge the role that grandfathers ...

It’s finally here. Today is the day. We have made lists, shopped, packed, filled out forms, and now we are going to make the drive to Pennsylvania to move my youngest daughter into her freshman dorm ...