As most of you know, we recently put my eight-year-old son ‘Bruiser’ on an electronic fast for an entire week. That meant no television (except for our weekly Family Movie Night). No iPad. No iPhone. No video games. No computer (unless he was working on his ‘novel’). Nothing. Nada. Nilch. (Yes, I realize that nilch […]
October 6, 2015
Several months ago, one of my 11 year old daughter’s equine-obsessed friends introduced her to a website called Howrse.com. On this site, users breed horses and ponies and manage their own personal equestrian centers. It didn’t sound very interesting to me, but after checking out the site for myself and making it clear to my daughter that she […]
September 24, 2015
The September issue of Vogue arrived in my mailbox yesterday and I could not wait to go through it and find out what’s HOT for fall. As I turned the pages, my eyes widened and my heartbeat quickened. Ladies, I’m here to tell you that FALL 2015 may well be a season in fashion that […]
September 3, 2015
If you’d asked me a few years ago whether my kids would ever have a screen time problem, I would’ve assured you that in this house, screen time would never be an issue. After all, I’d read all the articles about how harmful too much screen time can be to a child’s development. I’d seen […]
September 1, 2015
Dear Teachers, As the end of the school year approached a few months ago, my Facebook feed began to fill with all of your jubilant updates, which mostly consisted of stuff like this… I laughed right along with you, teachers. You deserved a break! And the truth was, I was glad to be getting my […]
August 5, 2015
When I had my first child, I couldn’t wait to enjoy all the perks that came with being a new mom. After all, I’d spent nine long months anticipating my baby’s arrival- It was time to get this parenting show on the road! And so, almost immediately, I started taking my tiny daughter to story times. And puppet shows. […]
July 23, 2015
Times have changed since the 1950s– and that’s definitely a good thing. If fashion models of the 1950s could time travel to 2015, I have a feeling things would quickly get out of hand. Take a look… “Herbert, would you get off the horn already?” Delores said impatiently. “I’ve got eyebrows on fleek– and I simply must tell Edith the […]
July 20, 2015
For several years now, my son has begged us to to buy him a trumpet. At first, we thought the request was a passing fancy, sort of like his plans to build a walking, talking robot out of old batteries and cereal boxes, or his dreams of opening a bookstore in our home filled with books he’d written, […]
July 9, 2015
Dear Reese, When I heard you were launching a new fashion and home brand called Draper James, I was plum tickled. Despite your Hollywood A-list status, you’ve always seemed so down to earth, so approachable- I reckon you’re the kind of gal who could fix a running toilet while dressed in a Dior ballgown, or change a poonami diaper without needing […]
June 23, 2015
Disney’s Newsies is playing now through Sunday at the Tennessee Center for Performing Arts (tickets are still available!), and and then moving on to other theaters across the country. We got to see the musical on opening night and it has one of the strongest casts I’ve seen in a touring show- Literally every singer and dancer […]
May 28, 2015
