Have you ever had one of those conversations where, no matter what questions you ask, the conversation never went past, “Hey, how are you? How’s the weather?”
My relationship with my father had been that way for as long as I could remember. Conversations rarely got beyond the superficial formalities. Everything was always just ok and the conversations usually lasted five minutes. I longed for a deeper connection with him. I wanted him to open up to me and let me know what was …

When you go swimming at our community pool, you get a nice, very bright, orange bracelet to wear that proves you paid.  Children under a certain age don’t have to wear these bracelets, which to some, as we learned the other day, just won’t do.  After returning home from the pool, Coco talked on and on about the bracelets to Sean, who had taken her swimming, and because I was knee deep in making dinner.  The bracelet conversation continued through …

If you were to ask me and my husband what our biggest challenge in parenting has been thus far, we would easily answer: Sleep! Our son will be two years old this June and most nights he still does not sleep completely through the night.  Do you want to know a secret?  He isn’t the only one.  Most toddlers wake at least once during the night.
In our sleep seeking adventures, we’ve found a couple of things to be most important:  …

For twenty-two years, I followed the advice of an old, wise man who said, “If you love Corinne and you love the future children she will bear, you will live on the oceanfront where the air is best.”
Of course, there were myriads of other reasons this grandfatherly figure would suggest I live close to the sea, most of them about learning to focus our attentions on nature and the simple things life close to the natural world bring us. Since …

In Sunday’s Washington Post, Bruce Feiler writes a compelling editorial about the current trend of dad-bashing and the recent scientific data finding no real significance to the role dads play in the lives of their kids, he makes a strong case in favor of dads.
You can read the article HERE…
My 4 and 7 year old prepared cards and helped pick out a special outfit for their dad, including a hat, for this Father’s Day.  We sang to him and made …