This is how my daughter has been referring to this unexpected and peculiar time off: Plague Break. It's like Spring Break (which acco...

The most natural question to ask an author about their new book is: "What is it about?" That question makes total sense. Of...

I've been swimming at the local county pool since before my children were born. It's good exercise, but for lap swimmers it's ra...

Thinking way, way back to when I had my first baby, one of the more vivid adjustments was to how relentless much of the responsibilities fee...

We don't start doing holiday-specific things until all the kids' birthdays are over. From mid-November through mid-December, life is...

I'm at that odd moment on Thanksgiving Day where things are cooking, but it's too early to cook the final things, and we're stil...

November is National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo if you want to get weirdly abbreviated about it). It's a nonprofit group that ge...