The Katherine Wheel

I used to write poetry. I was the stereotypical teenager, filled to overflowing with angst and heartbreak and big dreams. I sat cross-legge...

We are now day five of Monkey being sick. Poor thing. He's been running fevers, hardly eating anything except popcicles, and today deve...

Every since October, the boys have been begging for snow. How they think I am supposed to provide this, I've never been quite sure, but ...

Current Book Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese. This is the first non-young adult book I have read in a long time. It's good, but...

Growing up, my parents had a requirement that all us children learned to play a musical instrument. Most of us started on the piano, but ou...

Hubster tells the boys "yes" a lot. Yes, you can play computer. Yes, you can eat that cookie right before dinner. Yes, you can we...

I love lists. I make all sorts of lists. Menus, grocery shopping lists, to-do lists for busy days, check boxes for work. Sometimes I make li...