It is said that in the beginning, Moses did not have a name. He was born to a woman who didn’t name him or...
When I got divorced, learning how to talk about it with my son did not come easily.
When I first told my 10-year-old son about...
My son is now six years old and my daughter is four years old. I have only left them overnight for one weekend last...
I am insecure. Not all the time, and not in all situations, but insecurity is not a foreign concept to me. It's not something I like...
Having kids changes everything. It changes every aspect of your life and marriage, including sex.
After my second child was born, it took me...
When I became a stepmother, I had been warned that parenting was the hardest job I would ever have, but also the most rewarding....
I think back to the days when my husband and I first met - when I would stare at his face admiringly for hours...
My husband is a little obsessed with stars. Stars of Betelgeuse and North fame, not Bullock and Clooney. I don’t think he knows very...
It’s 7:50 p.m. My children are asleep, soundly. My husband pulls a wooden cigar box out of the credenza in our dining room, an...
“It takes a village to raise a child.”
While the origin of this proverb is up for discussion, the concept itself is a familiar one...
Kids are back in school, the leaves are falling, and stores are decking their halls with holiday paraphernalia. Good, bad or indifferent, soon the...
When was the last time you went out on a date with your partner?
If you are like me you have to really think about it....
The Meaning of Valentine's Day
I don’t need a Valentine, a paper with a heart.
I don’t need some Hallmark words with baby Cupid art.
I don’t...
To quote the great William Shakespeare: “What is in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as...
In + Around Vermont
Winter in Vermont
It is late fall and the temperature drops just enough for the precipitation to turn from pestery rain into beautiful, soft, magical snowflakes and...
