Giving New Meaning to Parenting

My husband and I have been married for just over 10 years. Most of the time our relationship is easy. We have our moments, but truly they are few. We seem to parent as a team with minimal effort, although this has taken time and an understanding of what is important to each of us [...]

I was about 12 or 13 years old when the economy sank into a big recession. My parents may have talked about it at the time; I vaguely remember seeing dire stories in the news but I wasn’t strongly affected. By the time I finished college the job market had rebounded and I [...]

A friend of mine related a story last week in which her granddaughter got to the kitchen one morning only to find that there were no clean bowls to use for breakfast. She immediately headed upstairs and complained to her dad, who then called mom at work to ask what to do. (This [...]

I was sitting alone on a bench by a duck pond, our ignored lunch by my side, while my two-year old daughter Fern, a dozen yards away, slowly fed her rice cake to an indulgent Canada goose. I suppose I must have looked like a safe parent, because just then a chummy 10-year old girl [...]

When I decided to do a triathlon, the sport I was most confident about was swimming. After all, I swam competitively from 4th grade through college. What was 400 yards in the water for a triathlon when my best event used to be a mile? Never mind that fact that I’m going [...]

I spent part of last weekend with my family (two sisters) and part of Mother’s Day with Nancy’s family (twin sister and two brothers). As I look at our relationships, I am curious about what the relationship between Andrew and Hope will be in 30 years.
We have two children. Andrew is 21, Hope is 17. [...]