Family vacations in our house have always facetiously been referred to as “FFF” or “Forced Family Fun,” but right now it doesn’t seem like much of a joke....
Life IS better after 50. For me the greatest awareness of that came when I focused on the realization that memories are the stuff of real life and decided to act on that belief. There’s a stone hut at the top of the mountain where my family skies. ...
The day my daughter Anna got her nose pierced, my husband Ken, remained unequivocal on the subject. He told me that, “if you had had a nose piercing when we met we wouldn’t be having this conversation today.”...
The intense mommy buzz created by Amy Chua's book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is causing a flare-up of my own parental PTSD -- our three girls are all in their 20s now and it's been years since I worried about a playgroup......
While I no longer can recall the gifts I ’ve been given from year to year, I always remember the experiences. So, when I turned 50, I invited a group of girlfriends and my sisters for a weekend in the country ...
This is the week that defines the holidays for us. It’s a time to celebrate life with children, who are more adult than anything else. It’s my time to dive into each of them and to re-establish contact in a new and meaningful way. Let’s face it, they aren’t the same people they were last year at this time....
It all started when my youngest of four, my 12 year-old daughter, wanted me to run with her. “Let’s get up at 6:30, so that I can run before school,” she offered....
A question for parents of adult children: How many of you are providing – or have in the past provided – them with some sort of financial support?...
Today finds me a super-stretched, trapped-in-the-middle, poster child for the Sandwich Generation. For this Thanksgiving, I want just one thing: To feel neither worried nor guilty for one whole day....
