Even before we met, at age 16, Mike and I had something in common. Our moms were both Barry Manilow fans. If you don’t know Barry, aside...

If I could invite anyone to dinner, dead or alive, Erma Bombeck, a role model that I never met, is a top contender on my list! It is...

This week I began a much needed deep clean of our kitchen, as I prepared for guests to visit our home, and found a communication piece, a...

For more than twenty years, the majority of our married life, I have come to hold a grudge against my husband’s annual guys' weekend, but...

Even though today is St. Patrick’s Day, the day of good luck, I am not feeling it. My adult child recently uttered the phase that made me...

Cleaning the basement storage after more than a decade of accumulation of stuff, I felt like an archeologist excavating through the...

With a gallon of milk and loaf of bread in hand, I spotted it out of the corner of my eye. The next thing I knew, Time magazine’s...

A mom of four teens and young adults, Kori shares her take on Simon Sinek's talk on Millennials and the concept of "failed parentin

Equal Pay for Equal Work…never thought that would come up as a commercial during the Super Bowl. I wasn’t anticipating having to think...

This week, Elizabeth McCord, main character from the television series Madam Secretary, expressed out loud what I was feeling inside. “It...