My daughter Molly has been setting her own pace since she took her first steps (to her Great-Grandpa Fey in the visiting room of his nursing home). A Thoreau-ly confident English major, she occasionally keeps pace with her companions, sometimes trails them and, every now and then, she zooms ahead. She likes to step to [...]
As I make hasty plans to celebrate the final college graduation of my maternal career, I am pondering the beauty of parental transitions. I should be confirming reservations, packing, even figuring out what I’m going to wear. But I accidentally pulled out an old shoebox that sent me down a familiar detour and now I’m [...]
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 [...]
One of the best things about your children growing up and leaving home is that every moment you get to spend with them thereafter feels like a gift. Another best thing is seeing them stretch themselves in ways you could not even have imagined. I enjoyed both when my daughter Molly came home this past [...]
I'm no expert, but it seems to me that the best way to exterminate internet trolls is to expose them. So, with a nod to Jeff Foxworthy, here are a few ways to spot them and lure them out into the light. You might be an internet troll if... You're still commenting on Ty Montgomery's [...]
