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We’ve already posted a hack about dancing with your kids as a way to get a workout, but I loved Emma’s description (and the playlist!) so I figured it was worth an encore:. My son is two and a half, and I work full-time. ...

The Tempestuous Nature of Preschool Friendships
Watching our preschoolers navigate their social worlds always amazes and often shocks us. The things they say to each other! There are the proclamations of everlasting love: “You are my favorite friend in the whole world, ......

How’s October 15th sound for having a baby? Thanks to some big new initiative to bring down c-section rates, my hospital refused to let my doctor schedule the surgery/birth/gutting/whatever on the date we’d originally planned for ...

Tempest in a Lipstick Tube.
(In the past few weeks, I’ve slammed the critics who’ve nastily labeled Sarah Palin a “bad mom” for having the nerve to run for public office when she has a baby at home and a pregnant teenaged daughter, even though her husband is ......

How’s October 15th sound for having a baby? Thanks to some big new initiative to bring down c-section rates, my hospital refused to let my doctor schedule the surgery/birth/gutting/whatever on the date we’d originally planned for ...

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The most magnificent experience of any child’s journey through elementary education is the discovery that there is something called Uranus. That was certainly the case for me. All though years of multiplication tables and Beverly Cleary ...

Why Am I Not Surprised: Kanye West Arrested
I think it’s sad that I’ve come to expect sports stars and hip hop artists to get arrested. That’s why I wasn’t the least bit shocked when the news came yesterday that Kanye West was arrested at the airport in LA for allegedly damaging ......

This is an amazing story. A father and his 13-year-old son go swimming in the ocean. They’re separated by strong currents and drift out into the open water. The father uses phrases from Disney movies to communicate with his son: “To ...

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If I had any bit of sewing ability, you’d bet I’d whip up something for both my kids and forgo the annual trip to that big mouse store (ahem) to spend waaaay too much on a Halloween costume. Darn those preschoolers and their opinions ...

And the Village Burned to the Ground
I talked to my mom yesterday. My dad is not doing well. He’s unsteady, dizzy, forgetful. A heart monitor found an arrhythmia. Everything keeps getting worse instead of better. The doctors think his symptoms are the results of his fall ......

images.jpg I believe in intuition. That strong, strong feeling deep in your gut that is telling you to do something–or not. My problem is that often I have a hard time digging out my feelings. As a journalist I was taught that there are ...

New study sheds light on pain
In second grade, a doctor had to dig lead out of my forehead after I accidentally got in the way of a boy throwing a pencil to a classmate (yes, the boy was punished). Last year, I went through a hole-punch biopsy with just local ......

And some of it was obviously due to the fact that he was my first baby. School signals the loss of his innocence in many ways. And yet, and yet… I’m still flabbergasted at my emotional upheaval. It’s not like Stink’s Tourette symptoms ...

34 Weeks
I’m getting dangerously close to the point where I simply cannot go a day without at least posting that yes, there is no baby yet and all is well with my womb. I’m sorry. It’s just that the baby’s sock drawer is not going to repeatedly ......

I’ve never had one of those naked-in-front-of-an-audience dreams, but I do have some of the other standards such as forgetting where class is, missing tests, and getting lost in hotels, malls, and campuses. There’s also a plethora of ...

Watercolor painting of Chuck
A reader and artist named Rachael Rossman was inspired by this photo of Chuck and rendered it beautifully with watercolor. I love the style of this, and when I dabbled in art in high school this was exactly the type of thing I wish ......

But Leighann, a smart woman I met at Johnson & Johnson’s Camp Baby, is also trying to fight the disease one blog at a time. Not only has she chronicled her story and provided educational links, but she’s sponsoring a giveway to create ...

My genes made me do it!
infidelity.jpg My mother, like many others I’m sure, has a habit of calling me to share news articles she thinks I might find interesting. And she reads them to me over the phone, start to finish. No summarizing, no skipping around. ......