I’m tearing up 2012. Every night since Monday, Jan. 2, I have cooked a fresh, hot dinner WITH vegetables. I have served said dinner at our kitchen table, complete with cloth placemats and my... Read more >>

I come from a Native American Indian reservation. I have three children; all are grown up now and have beautiful children of their own. They were all born and raised on the reservation. We had a... Read more >>

For some reason, my daughter Allie thinks that an essential part of going to eat at a restaurant is using their restroom. It’s a MUST to her. If we go out to eat, she absolutely has to use their... Read more >>

Bryce was an easy child. He was never colicky, and he slept through the night at three months. Throughout elementary school, Bryce woke with a smile and got ready for school quickly. He’d wear... Read more >>

While having our fence built one summer, my then five-year-old son went out to watch the guys working; we had just went to 7-Eleven and gotten a Slurpee. As he was sucking on his straw, one of the men... Read more >>

My one-year-old, who is normally very good and usually never fusses, was beyond consolation all morning. He didn’t want food, drink, bottle—nada. So, like any normal mother, I put him back... Read more >>

My best friend, Sapphira*, is a hippie. A true, undeniable hippie. Her parents were hippies and I am now inclined to believe it is hereditary. She takes herbal remedies and large amounts of vitamin C.... Read more >>

Ask a woman how her appointment went at the dentist and she will talk your ear off. Ask her how it went at the gynecologist and she clams up or whispers her experience to her closest friends. I guess... Read more >>

When I was a child, I loved going to my grandmother’s home. She let me do about anything short of setting it on fire. Fire was nothing to her since my mother had accidentally accomplished... Read more >>

Now you’ve told your significant other, your parents, friends, and relatives the happy news, celebrated, read every magazine and book ever published, and now eagerly await the first signs to... Read more >>