Oh how I could easily start ranting: If the woman pictured to the right is considered a plus-size and some people are calling her fat, then it’s no wonder why, as a society, women feel so insecu...

This story gives a whole new meaning to the term “helicopter parent.”   According to the Gainesville Sun, a dad in Florida wanted his son to make an impression on the other students on ...

September is among the biggest months of the year in the baby-birthing biz: some 370,000 babies will arrive this month.   That means thousands of dads are out there pissing off some very at-their-li...

“Hey, mom.”   “Yes, Zac.”   “Your mama is so fat that when she sits down at Wal-Mart she lowers all their prices.”   I laughed (probably not the most...

I was reading Betsy Shaw’s post about Joyce’s post about mommy anger and I had to laugh – as in uncontrollably. As in if we can’t keep our cool now, when the kids still give u...

I’d heard of this happening, kind of knew it would happen.   And yet, I was still taken aback the other night when out of left field Stella announced: “I told my friend at school that yo...

My epiphany occurred shortly after the first, mega-sized beef ball fell from the sky in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, a movie from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation that hits theaters...

Hats off to Steve Monforto.   In case you don’t recognize the name, he is the guy who caught a foul ball in the stands of a Phillies game. He then gave the souvenir to his 3-year-old daughter...

My father had zero desire to attend any of the births of his five children, nor, according to my mom, “was he invited.” I’m not sure exactly when things changed, but change they did...

Or maybe not. One doctor and two nurses said that they thought Zoe, who is almost 5, had contracted the H1N1 flu. Another doctor disagreed, saying her fever (which had reached 101 degrees) was not hig...