I have a rambunctious four year old Maltese named Buster.  He has some sort of Napoleon syndrome-small and therefore full of the desire to prove his largess to the world.  He is ridiculous when I take him on walks.  If a big dog approaches he needs to bark and growl like all six pounds of [...]

My daughter is a good girl.  She is just barely over 18, and makes good grades.  She rarely breaks her curfew her mother and I set, and when she does, usually calls us.  One thing to keep in mind, though, is that she is still a teenager.  This being said, she has been known to [...]

I have a great idea for auto insurance companies:  give discounts to people that monitor teens while driving!  I mean, we have nanny cams to keep tabs on our caregivers, we use home security cameras to keep tabs on our other precious possessions, and we even use a spycam to watch contractors or cheating spouses.  [...]

Being a room mom at my children’s school often requires juggling of schedules, last minute runs to the grocery store and hours and hours on the telephone informing my fellow parents about the goings on in the classroom. Always ready to help the teacher, I never considered what I was doing by signing up to [...]

I haven’t been to Florida since I was 5 — literally.  It was more than 20 years ago that my mom, my sister, and I went on a Florida vacation and stayed with my grandfather at a hotel on the beach.  I don’t even remember what the sea is like — the only thing I [...]