I have admitted more than once that holidays aren't really my thing. I seem to do better with the day-to-day than with the special occa...

I recently finished a very interesting book called Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey , by Lillian Schlissel. It's a somewhat ...

I am, like so many others, a lapsed Catholic. But before I lapsed, I was really Catholic. Youth groups, retreat leader, religious education...

Bedtimes with Charlie have taken a turn for the worse in the past few days. I don't know why--except just the unpredictability and pure ...

Crappy costume time! Hooray! Well, crappy if you're my kids, because they were unfortunate enough to be saddled with a non-crafty mothe...

Yesterday marked the beginning of leaf raking and, therefore, burning. We can burn the leaves in our driveway, see, because we live in an a...

One of the fun things about having children is sharing things with them that are special to the parents. I really loved reading the Little H...