Yesterday I asked the kids for a status report on how I was doing packing their snacks for school. “I LOVE the Veggie Straws!” Lucy exclaimed, like she’d been waiting all [...]

Lucy corrected me this past weekend when, in the midst of our first yoga session, I told her I wasn’t any good at yoga. “You’re not good at yoga yet,” she [...]

This is how I learned to ride a bike: My father held the back of my seat and ran alongside me, shouting encouragement in his vowel-breaking Irish brogue, and next I [...]

Almost by definition, puppies are going to dry-heave loudly at 4 am until you take them out to pee. That’s where I’ve been these past few mornings, people - in my [...]

New puppies, much like Gremlins and teen vampires, tend to be lovely creatures by day and terrifying after dark. (I write these words, as you might imagine, bleary-eyed and disoriented from [...]