I know that these are Egyptian gods, not Norse.  We are equal-opportunity mythologists. Photo credit: chelle at Morguefile Yesterday, ...

For the third time this year, my middle child is on crutches. Crushed between the heavy pressure of indomitable Rowan and adorable Mika...

Here is my six year-old dancing in a little cramped corner of my kitchen. He's actually pretty good. A couple of months after this wa...

I must confess that I have lost my cool. Recently, my adrenalin has surged more than once as I have heard the deluge of news detailing exact...

I just drove 548 miles with an unpaid stand-up comedian, a teenage maharajah, a mustachioed brigand and a Christian-phobic person who is try...

I have reached the stage of my blogging career where I am prostituting everything I write on virtual street corners. I say prostituting...

"Lovely Weed" Easy as ABC. Simple as 123. What could be simpler than setting pencil to paper, than cutting and pasting a l...

I take a certain amount of pride in the fact that my children are not especially materialistic, as children go. When asked what they want...

Photo Credit: Flickr Three years or so ago, when my oldest son was in fifth grade, I went to his elementary school to collect him from...

Here he is impersonating a bag of cement, 12 hours old. Let me preface this by saying that Mike and my marriage is marked primarily by o...

I want to tell you about the Mother's Day weekend that my family traveled to the Durango Shootout Soccer Tournament. News Flash:  Moth...

Apparently, while I wasn't paying attention, there was a skirmish between the gluten-free people and the dairy-free people, which the gl...

Amy Here is but one apparent difference between the male mind and the female mind: Focus. Whether my husband is seated at his compu...

Photo Credit: Flickr In case you don't know, we are Unitarian Universalists . Which means that, at least by the standards of our ...

Photo Credit:  Flickr O.K., before I begin here, in the interest in full disclosure, I must make a couple of admissions. First admiss...