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It’s prom/graduation/end of year/all the celebrations season. Every other day, I’m at some event that requires kids (or sometimes adults) to line up for a group photo. And, then it happens. All the gi...

Recently, I got the opportunity to sit through an awards ceremony that G was invited to participate in, and, aside from the fact that it was short, to the point, and over in a reasonable amount of tim...

Kid number two is almost across the finish line. G has officially committed to his first choice college, the school we’ve all known he was destined to go to since he was about 5 years old. Yes, he’s f...

“Touch grass.” I’ve been seeing this phrase pop up everywhere lately, from the corners of the internet that I peruse to my kids’ vocabulary. While the kids tend to use it as a synonym for “reality che...

Call me crazy, but we added six more ducklings to the flock this year. We rolled the dice with our additions last summer and ended up with three males and two females. At first, it wasn’t an issue, bu...

A few weeks ago, a mall in Pennsylvania posted an apology and an explanation after an Easter egg hunt event they held went awry. Today, I read another account of a local business that sponsored a simi...

Something weird has been going on with my kids lately. They’ve been getting along. At first, I thought I was imagining things. Rita’s is nearby, and it’s not uncommon for us to stop on the weekends, o...

When I was younger, I thought cantaloupe, avocado and coffee were the nastiest things a person could consume. Now, my quest for the not too ripe avocado takes a good portion of my grocery shopping tri...

I’ve never been all that into antiquing or thrifting. It always felt like it took a lot of time to find something that might not be quite exactly what you wanted in the first place. Thanks to Internet...

I guess we can say that another round of college application processes has come to a successful close. Two kids, two acceptances to their first-choice schools, two processes so completely different th...