Lessons in Friendship

It’s 3 o’clock on a Friday afternoon and I’m standing in front of the elementary school, waiting for my first-grader.  Any moment, the brick building’s front doors will swing open and my girl will appear, smiling as she catches my eye from the top of the concrete steps, then bounding towards me, taking two steps [...]

No Place Like Home

Ahhhhh, January.  It’s finally here.  After months of what feels like non-stop activity, there’s something so nurturing about the cold, dark days of January.  We retreat inward, taking time and space to reflect on the previous year and look ahead to all that can be.  We take comfort in the warmth of our homes and [...]

Move Over Ferris Bueller

I have a love/hate relationship with most parenting magazines.  I love them for their dead-on interpretations and resolutions to baffling behaviors and childhood challenges.  I hate them for their perfectly perky parents and crazy cute kiddos in the glossy photographs, not to mention their obsession while celebrity families. But this week, a headline on Parenting’s [...]

Family and Fitness: Tie Score

It’s 5 o’clock in the afternoon on a crisp, October day.  I’m driving home from work, my head swirling with to-do’s, my body aching to move after a long day at behind a desk.    It’s been a full five years since I last spent so much time on my rear end, and I’ve never [...]

On Today’s Menu: Taco Surprise

Double Thumbs Down. That’s what my six-year-old Sarah gave the tacos her school served her for lunch this week.  To say I was proud would be the understatement of the year.  After all, my kid’s desire to buy lunch in the cafeteria has been the source of all of my going-off-to-first-grade anxiety since the moment [...]

Off the Mat Practice Makes us all Better Moms

Excuses, excuses…I could come up with at least a dozen right now.  Excuses of why I haven’t written a fresh post, why I haven’t been running as often, why my yoga mat is lonely in the dark basement which is my home practice area, why I haven’t cleaned my bathroom or put away my clean [...]