I had a coffee date with a childhood friend last week and we got to talking about our kids growing up and the inevitable question of “what’s next.” So many women that I talk to, both... Read more >>

Mr. 99.89% There it was in black and white, " subject A has been 99.89% conclusively identified as the biological father of subject B". It was all so clinical yet the undeniable validation... Read more >>

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”—John Dewey We soul-driven entrepreneurial types are an interesting lot... Read more >>

There is something about Mary Tucker. My friend seems like a normal enough person when you meet her. That is, normal in the sense of having been an attentive mom to her two daughters, a support to... Read more >>

I decided recently to reinvent myself. I’m calling this reinvention “Shannon 2.0” and her tagline is “Progress. Not Perfection.” Like everything else in my life... Read more >>

We have an ice box that doesn’t make ice. We buy ice at the store and put it in the ice container that should be holding the perfectly-formed ice cubes coming from the machine. That’s... Read more >>

Elizabeth Gilbert I am not. Envy about her being number-one in Amazon.com’s “memoir” category aside, there are other reasons to dwell on her this morning just as the sun is about to... Read more >>

It’s a mixed bag, this aging thing. Here I sit, less than three months off from ‘that’ birthday—you know what I’m talking about, I know you do—the so-called... Read more >>