How well I remember my carefree 20’s. Well, they didn’t seem carefree then; I was trying to work through a failing marriage while making a start on my career. But, looking back from my vantage point of right now – with kids, a mortgage, aging parents, and a (different) husband with a cholesterol...

Barney, the Purple Dinosaur, is not the first example that comes to mind when thinks of intelligence. Einstein? For sure. Ben Franklin? Yep. Bill Gates? Absolutely. All would come to mind before the big, fluffy green-spotted reptile. Even among children’s characters, he would not be the first...

A Mom-car. Yes, I drive one. And not only do I drive one, I’m PROUD to drive one. At my two-year-old’s gym class recently, a father asked me what I thought of my minivan. I immediately began to extol all of its unending virtues: the electronic sliding doors, 100+ (or so it seems) cup holders,...