Yesterday was Talk Like Shakespeare Day. After learning about the hundreds of common words and phrases that are attributed to the Bard, I...

Forest, hunter, evergreen, pine, those are particular favorites of mine. Kelly, shamrock, emerald, jade, every one a lovely shade. Sage,...

We watched The Man Who Invented Christmas over our winter break. Never have I seen a more accurate portrayal of what a fiction writer's...

"Twas a month before Christmas when deep in his den, Santa was busy with paper and pen. He spoke not a word as he rechecked his list,...

I have to tell you about the best dream ever. I'm not talking about a warm, fuzzy, waking up to rainbows and unicorns sort of great...

If you open the front cover of any of my numerous notebooks, you're going to see the same thing: a blank page. I absolutely cannot handle...

As I write this message, I have a children's potty song playing in a loop in my head, and I'm wondering how the caregivers for toddlers...

I've come across an unexpected complication to this whole vintage mom thing-- the great renaming. Megan, my oldest, used to think of her...

Something in our heating ducts has been making funny noises. From our bathroom, it sounds for all the world like an elf tinkering away...

Some people want to be mermaids. Others want to be unicorns. But me, I think I might be more of a dragon. No, I'm not some big scaly...

Here I am, jumping on the blogging bandwagon. I feel like a fish out of water, but I'll throw my hat in the ring. I hope I haven't...