When Barbara Ostroth, Realtor Extraordinaire, sold us our first little Cape Cod, she set us up with everything from painters…

“Relax, Mom,” they say. “Nothing’s going to happen.”My kids don’t know how lucky they are. I work myself up into…

“Grandma, tell me the story again about that thing you used to do,” says the little tike tugging at my…

“Buying a used car is just buying someone else’s problems,” my father would repeat every two years when he’d trade…

“Hey, Mom,” Leo said the other day. “I need new baseball cleats.”“Didn’t you just get new ones at the end…

I have been blessed with being able to maintain an out-of-sight, out-of-mind mentality. It’s not all that easy for a…

“Are you some secret world peace activist, or just a throwback hippie?” a friend asked when she came to my…

I am selfish and spoiled when it comes to my sleep. But, I’m also a rule-follower, so it’s not entirely…

I am a memory miser. Sitting on my desk is a little ceramic dog with a spinning head that I…

 I grew up in the Spanking Era. When kids did something wrong, they got a walloping. No one gave it…