Oh, here we go. The New York Times Style section has identified yet another trend-you-love-to-hate, and it’s the so-called “resting bitch face,” or the way some of us (in the case of the article, surprise! it’s women) have faces that naturally, at rest, appear to be not so friendly! The piece is titled I’m Not […]

Do you have a tribe? Back in October of last year, I got a group email that read: You know the one time of year that I am remotely sappy, is Zoe’s birthday. I decided to write her a letter this year. I wanted to share it with you. Because you, as you will read […]

James, my 10-year-old, wrote my off-the-cuff list with some creative spelling and a lot of laughter. Here’s my Christmas problem. I love it, never fear that I’m about to be curmudgeonly about the hoopla and the food and the family. I like creating and sending cards, and I send a lot through the mail, regardless […]

Dinner is served! Both of my grandmothers were good cooks. Neither ever got to anything like a gourmet level, of course, but they had a whole lot of family-pleasing dishes down cold, particularly my father’s mom — who once gave my sister an afternoon-long tutorial on how to make chicken soup, starting with the bones […]

Who’s out there anymore? We talk a very good game, don’t we, about how our kids need to be outside and moving, rather than indoors and glued to their screens. But how easy is it to say, “go outside!” Actually, it is pretty easy. To say. And I say it, all the time — particularly […]

Are we willing to ditch rules for school playgrounds? During his school recess, back when he was in the third grade, my older son invented a game in which he was the proprietor of a store, prompted by the presence of the little take-out-style window that was part of the playground equipment at his school. […]