Two weeks ago, I was behind the mother of one of my daughter’s classmates in the grocery store check out line. She accidentally paid for hamburger meat and then left it behind on the counter. By the time the clerk and I noticed, she was gone. The clerk was handing it to […]

You might be reading this because you are a mother with considerable free time on her hands. But more likely you are reading it because like any person trying to do the work of motherhood, you find yourselves at times overwhelmed, stressed out, anxious, and furious beyond your wildest imaginings. Probably not all at once, […]

I would like to thank the people who came up with the idea of the “no candy aisle” at the supermarket. At the same time I would like to know why they chose to pack those aisles with ten thousand other things my children would be willing to hurl themselves over a cliff for.