November might just be this tired mom’s favorite month of the year. I used to think it was October, what with the arrival of autumn and all the fun family events surrounding Halloween. And my October was truly delightful—I finally made good on a two-year promise to my kids that we’d host a Halloween party, [...]

This column ran in the October 12th edition of “The Covington News.” It’s no secret that autumn is my favorite season, but there are five things about it that stir up a “Jekyll-and-Hyde” love-and-hate style response in me. 1. Having the windows open. I love it because the cool, fresh air circulating through the house [...]

This column ran in The Covington News on October 5, 2011. I felt rather apprehensive when I walked into the doctor’s office last week. It was a return visit to discuss the results of recent blood work. I didn’t fear news of anything truly terrible, like cancer, but I wondered if my poor lifestyle choices [...]

This column ran in yesterday’s edition of The Covington News. They say that energy is wasted on the young. I think that the concept of time is wasted on them, too. Remember when you were little, and it seemed that an entire lifetime stretched out between summer vacation and Christmas? Sometimes I wish life still [...]

When I was pregnant with my first son Zach, some fourteen years ago, I could’ve easily rattled off a list of adjectives describing what I expected motherhood to be like. Rewarding. Tiring. Fulfilling. Stressful. Joyous. And it turns out that I was right about all of those things. But one word I never connected with [...]