I feel hopeful, which seems to make no sense, but here I am - choosing it, hanging on to it, and sharing it.

Two days before Christmas, I did this to my car. It was completely my fault, and adding insult to injury (actually, my injury was only a...

I haven’t blogged in three months and I’m not proud of this. The last time you heard from me I had sore legs from hiking and was reading...

Yesterday was my birthday and I spent an hour of it in the dentist’s chair. By choice. I’m not proud of myself for scheduling a dentist...

Santa has disappeared from our house. By that, I mean that we no longer have children who believe that Santa climbs down the chimney,...

On our return trip from Ghana Sunday afternoon, I barely escaped New York’s JFK airport ahead of Sandy. Having just flown in from the...

When Kyle and I started dating in college, I would often ask him this question during a long stretch of silence: “So…hey, what are you...

Summer is coming, and if it’s like every other summer of my adulthood it will last about three minutes. It seems like I’m buying beach...

I suppose that those of us who have children of different ethnic backgrounds are paying close attention to the Trayvon Martin story that...

Three friends had birthdays last month and I pulled down the gifts bins because I hate to shop. In case you don’t have gift bins, let me...

Days pass. Seasons change. The wardrobe must be updated. This has been my quiet and private mantra for years. The coming of fall (or...