We were living in a white brick Cape Cod house down the hill from my best friend Claire. On summer…

“Savor every minute!” an elderly woman trilled as she watched us struggling with the car seat straps on our first…

I may be a church-goer, but I’m the first to admit that on the ladder to the Lord, I’m on…

Tuesday was Griffey’s birthday. He turned 28. And he still lives at home.If the average life of a lab is…

“Why is it, that you are the ONLY mother out there,” Molly began (and I cringed). “That doesn’t post nice…

 “Where did you and Daddy meet?”  “Was it love at first sight?”“How did he ask you to marry you?” When…

“That should have been us,” my daughter, Molly, texted after the University of Connecticut’s men’s basketball team won the NCAA…

“I sometimes wonder how the rest of you feel,” my sister Emily mused as we were pulling together memories for…

My fate was sealed way back in Mrs. Dreifus’s kindergarten class at Enfield Elementary School. I wrote a story about…

“Your son is stuck on the highway. The car overheated. I’m caught up at work. He’s getting towed,” was the…