(Update: This was written several years ago; I now have only one teenager left. And yes, the following is truer than ever.) This spring I...

I can imagine some who read my annual Father’s Day posts on social media may feel slighted in the Daddy-hood department. Of course you...

(This post was written when my girls were small; half of them have left the nest and the other half are flapping their wings. I don't...

My dad did a lot of things right, but two of them made all the difference. I wouldn’t be who I am today if it weren’t for those two...

The other night I was waiting for dinner to finish cooking and realized I had fifteen unspoken-for minutes to do with as I chose. Too...

Recently a friend was describing to me one of her saddest childhood memories. Every day she’d come home from school to an empty house and...