Sez the dog As you well know, there exist cat people and dog people. I’m not sure if this is really a statement about personality so...

A few of the blogs I follow do a yearly ‘what I have learned this far’ birthday wrap-up sort of a post. I’ll follow their example. ...

Vacay, especially the weeks-on-end sort that so many foreign service families experience, is at once fun, educational (in a good way),...

The world, much like your table at Benihana's, is filled with strangers. Every single one of these strangers has at least one (but...

Let’s talk about state of mind. You have about 50 things to do today, right? 50 things to do, and time and energy for maybe 40 of them....

I know, you'd like to think it's a little bit about you at the very least. Sometimes, though, it's not. At all. Sometimes, it is not...

Stand up. A friend will not cave to peer pressure and waffle on a topic, issue, or confrontation just because the majority feels...

Check your self talk. Check your frame of mind. Move from here: I could never pull that off. To here: How can I be more adventurous?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJFGAX77zw4 ‘Tis the season again: the season of mass exodus from post. ‘Tis the season for perfecting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyVzjoj96vs How can you go wrong with Sesame Street together with Will.i.am? I love this song. My kids...

It happened again. Again, a place of learning, a safe place we send our kids to learn and to develop, became a place where young people...

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of cake for five people, promptly announces she never did care for cake."...

Sorry, but I am not sorry. Can I just say we start our kids off on the wrong foot sometimes. We start our kids down the path of untruths...

“Children will listen to you only after they feel you have listened to them.” Jane Nelsen Positive Discipline How are your listening...

United we stand, divided we fall. Except sometimes. Sometimes, things are easier when we are on our own. Sometimes, truly, solo is...

We all feel as though our generation grew up at that ONE pivotal time, THE era, and, regardless of our age, we feel our growing up years...

Money money money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxmCCsMoD0 Think about what you buy in a week. How much of what you purchased did...

Want to know what words drive me up the wall? ‘But moooom, so and so has (insert device/toy/clothing item here) and I dooooon’t…’ (Of...

Questions I believe every parent asks themselves at least once or twice each week (regardless of the age of their children): Why, oh why,...

Are there ways you can be more generous in the way you extend invitations and in the way you accept invitations. What if we found space...