My husband accused me of cheating last night. But I had laid down a perfectly legal move, called a BINGO, in my very first move of our family game night Super Scrabble match. It involved using up all... Read more >>

1. When you flip on the TV when you’re home alone, it takes you a good ten minutes to realize that you don’t have to watch Dora, the Explorer.  2. All of your rubber bands have wound... Read more >>

I was in the boys’ shoe aisle at Target when I officially turned into my mother. As I sifted through the sandals for a size 6 1/2, I couldn’t help but overhear one of the clerks trying... Read more >>

I was in the middle of telling a story at the dinner table last night when the doorbell rang. I got up and answered the door. A man told me in broken English, “I looking for work.”... Read more >>

The magic word was “birthday,” but I didn’t know it until it came out of my mouth. An office manager at the radiology center where I’d scheduled my quarterly PET scan was... Read more >>

The dust was collecting on the 2005 Food & Wine magazines. The National Geographic’s from 2006 were looking a little lonely, and the Woodworking magazines dating back to 2001 clearly... Read more >>

1. Your mini-van’s runners squeak under the weight of sand, lollipop sticks, broken crayons, and hopeful optimism that this summer, you won’t run out of swim diapers by noon.  2.... Read more >>

First, she put her mouth on each block before throwing them on the ground, one by one. Then she grabbed the crackers, handling three for every one that she actually decided to eat. Then she reached... Read more >>

I thought that there was something wrong with my son’s saxophone when I heard a loud, out-of-tune horn noise coming from my backyard yesterday after school. I assumed that my fifth grader had... Read more >>

We are not used to girls being around here. That’s why when my neighbor dropped off her two daughters here this morning, it was just a tad uncomfortable for all of us: the girls, my boys and me,... Read more >>