Had it not been for this global pandemic, my daughter Molly would be headed to Paris this weekend for culinary school. As it is, she is home with me, which is not the worst thing in the world...for me. While she has been admirably upbeat about this indefinite pause in her life, she is also [...]
As soon as I was old enough to understand what a family was, I knew that I was grateful for mine. I recognized pretty early on that not every father would sneak his kid out of summer camp for a pep talk and an ice cream cone, and not every mother would drive over to [...]
I had a very brief stint as Girl Scout. Yeah, I know, a renegade like me getting tied down to a troop, pretty unbelievable, right? I joined up in '04 and gracefully submitted my resignation in '05. That was one crazy year. I left with nothing but the barely filled sash on my back and [...]