“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…

“Where are you going to college?” I ask every high school senior I’ve ever met.More often than not, I get…

My kids can’t believe that we got through life without cell phones. And sometimes I can’t either. As a rampant…

Yesterday with the temperature topping out in the mid-thirties, I spent two hours shivering on cold metal bleachers watching Leo’s…

My favorite nephew, Harley, was a typical college sophomore at the University of Mississippi. He wore khaki pants, button-down shirts…

Of all the hopes we have for our children, there’s one that is universally unique to a mother. It has…

When I finally found the man I wanted to marry, I went on an all-out campaign to make it happen.…