Do I know how to set up a cliffhanger or what? Not intentionally, though. I just got busy with our wild spring break at Blackrock* and neve...

Happy belated Easter, my lovelies! Did you all have a pleasant day filled with chocolate bunnies, hysterical children, and even more hyster...

I'll tell you one thing about living in a place with a long and severe winter: That first day when you can send the (my) kids out to pl...

Oh hey, guess what? It appears I can make a girl baby after all! This fourth baby (due, incidentally, on October 16) is a girl. Sugar a...

Last October, I planted a couple dozen cloves of garlic. I had no idea if that's standard procedure in this climate, or if the cloves su...

Spring on the Canadian border looks an awful lot like . . . winter. All you can do is laugh. Possibly until you cry. Not to worr...

Charlie is supposed to go on a field trip today, for the very educational purpose of seeing the Smurfs movie at an actual movie theater. Si...