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A Crossroads of Advocacy and Acceptance
When my son was born over eight years ago, I remember the nurses at the hospital giving me all kinds of supplies the day we were...
A Delicate Balance
As the 2012 holidays ran out of steam, gasping their last breath on New Year’s Day, I stood in line at my local supermarket stocking up...
Top Ten Things I’m Grateful For As a Mom
In the wake of the unspeakable, unfathomable tragedy that befell such innocents in Connecticut, I could not help but cry and grieve with...
The Real Value of Daily Chores
On a random Wednesday last month, I was doing the same thing I always seem to be doing on a school night: simultaneously cleaning up the...
What Really Matters
As I sit down to write this, another storm is dumping wet, heavy snow on Staten Island—an area already devastated by the effects of...
How You Look Is Not Who You Are
L Last week, in a video that went viral, morning news anchor Jennifer Livingston of WKBT-TV (a CBS affiliate in LaCrosse, Wisconsin),...
New Beginnings
Back in July, I attempted to get a head start on buying school supplies for my kids, prompted mostly by the tremendous “Back to School”...
HELP!
It always amazes me the way my children scream “MOMMY?!!” – as if someone is dismembering them in their own home – when they need the...
Identity Theft By Minivan
I was having coffee the other day with a young friend of mine, who is in her late twenties. She is a bright, caring woman who also...
"Can you hold that thought while I quickly check my texts?"
Before I left for a recent family vacation, I never realized (or honestly admitted) how attached I was to my smart phone. Until the...
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