Wendy's Excellent Adventure

The MIL chronicles are about to begin anew.  Long-time readers of this blog may remember when MIL and Pa came to visit us in Hawaii four yea...

My experience as the parent of young children is that much of it is an exercise in perseverance - trying to endure the difficulties of a par...

Josie has probably worn a dress 2 or 3 times in her entire life.  I think dresses on little babies that aren't even sitting up or are st...

My kids are lovely, sweet and relatively well-behaved.  But bedtime remains a struggle.  Josie will go to sleep at a reasonable hour, about ...

Zeke and I were talking last night as I lay with him at bedtime.  I said, "you know what?  Only three more sleeps until Mimi and Papa c...

We got a juicer.    Over the weekend, J and I were chilling out on the couch and started watching Sick, Fat and Nearly Dead , a documenta...

Every night, I put Josie in her bed and I sit in a little chair next to it and read her stories.  Lately The Snowy Day and Llama Llama Miss...

Sometimes in maintaining a blog, I get too into the notion of themes -- of telling stories that have some overriding point, or of depicting ...

Let me start by saying that my mother is a highly intelligent, sophisticated, worldly individual.  She is extremely well read and has travel...

There's a lot of talk about tooting in my house.  We're all quite adept at it, and we all think it's funny. Immature, yes.  Bu...

This is the true story...of 4 people (well, mostly 3 of them) in a family...are forced to spend time together, all day, every day, for 10 da...

One of the things I'm been trying to build my coaching business around is the concept of motivation - how to help people form healthy ex...

We've reached that time of year when I'm hyper-aware of being different from the rest of society. Not because I'm Jewish and I...

" Hello... [tap tap tap] ... is this thing on?" It's been a weird month or so.  For a while I felt very fragmented and un...

According to the interwebs , the traditional 6th anniversary gift is candy or iron.  Random.  Or perhaps not.  Because after 6 years, m...

I definitely subscribe to the parenting school of thought referred to by my friend Lisa as "benign neglect."  I love my children,...

Our Thanksgiving travel last week provided an unexpected - and much welcome - glimmer of the light at the end of the tunnel.  Since having c...

I know that I am in the minority in that most Mondays, I am thrilled to come back to work after the weekend.  I like the structure of gettin...

The past week has been kind of a nightmare, with some points of light thrown in, in the form of my parents' visit and Zeke's birthda...