> Now that I’ve admitted to you how many presents we have under the tree, I can write about the flip side of all this without feeling, well, braggy. Obviously, we all try to teach our kids that it’s better to give than to receive, and Christmas is the perfect time to drive that lesson […]

>Dear Mrs. Horton Culpepper VII or Mrs. Shankston Harrowford-Jones or whomever you are, Perhaps you thought the extra-large monograms on your children’s smocked Christmas rompers or the rich texture of your designer fur or even the sizable donation your husband’s firm made to the Nashville Ballet entitled you to bring your one-and-a-half-year-old son to “The […]

> She probably was crying because it died somewhere in your HVAC Hi I read your blog about the Dwarf hamster and I was wondering…What is so bad about a dwarf hamster? I once got a hamster and my mother actually ended up loving it. She cried when it died.-Terri Maybe try tying it down […]

I should have seen this coming back when Punky was barely two and one of the older girls received a set of multicolored rubber iPod covers. Punky immediately claimed the iPod covers as her own, treating each of them as though it had a distinct personality. She spent the next two weeks lovingly carrying them […]

It’s that time of year again, time to dress up the kids in their Christmas best, stand in a long line and pay way too much money for what generally is a not-so-great Santa picture (or is that just me?) In the past, I’ve directed you to some of the best Santas out there; I’ve […]