I have been followed by the lingering smell of urine all day today. It seems that no matter where I traverse within my home or...

“[Mom] also drove my sisters and myself crazy by folding the most personal moments of our childhood lives into her talks as further illustrations of...

I’m going to reengage and confess that I’ve been a b*tch this last week. We all have — well, carried some form of the attitude anyway. Or...

So in this all-knowing-self-help-reference-book age of parenting, most of us realize how valuable it is to read to our kids and for our kids to spend time “reading” to...

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Today the boys decided to have their “boy’s club” again and locked Blythe out of their room: “she’s always jacking with [their] stuff.” Normally, I...

“It was times like this when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who...

Today, I took the kids to go swimming. On the way (not really), I picked up a car-less friend who lives on this little dirt...

Yesterday, Mark accused me of smoking weed — jokingly, but partly not. And just for clarity sake, I’m not. He’s simply grappling for some excuse as...

While the seventh year of marriage has been our most challenging yet, I can easily say — I have never loved you more. Happy 7th Anniversary. (And...