“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood No one wants to smell like the hot stank of 4th-grade classroom after gym…

At preschool drop-off another mom pointed out,”Your daughter’s socks don’t match.” I turned my palms upward in a je ne sais pas and wrinkled my nose,…

There will be no next time. That’s what I tell my girls when they flub up. Busted. You really messed up and now you’re outta luck. There will be no next time. I’m…

I faced the dresses, skirts, and shirts hanging in my closet and did not feel fresh. I don’t want to wear that dress – again! Only two more weeks, I reassured…

This becomes this in a blink. We all know how quickly they grow. For me, the nostalgia unleashes a yearn to have a third. The start is so precious. Yet when I’m…

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery We were driving down Route…

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’ ” – C.S. Lewis When was the last…

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust In December, I was really stumbling with my…

My youngest tries to cop a little feel. Until recently, she’d be sitting on my lap for a snuggle and before I knew it, she’d have her hand pulling down the front of…

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”…

 Let the little children come to me.  V started religious education classes in September. Every Tuesday night, she is in class from 6:15 to 7:30. At first I sighed at the…

Last Friday, while my hairdresser* blew my hair straight, I confessed, “I use hot rollers.” Childishly, I tilted my chin up at him, expecting to be schooled on the…

“If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.” -Italian Proverb I am swept away by whimsical charm of the children’s book, In Grandma’s Arms. Katz…

Happy Bastille Day! Coco Chanel said, “Dress shabbily and they notice the dress; dress impeccably and they notice the woman.” Chanel dressed to her personal style.…