For as long as I've been alive and I'm sure for even longer than that, Thanksgiving was always celebrated at my paternal grandparents' house. They had five children, four of whom married young and had children of their own. Thanksgiving was always...

So, yeah, I'm thankful for my wonderful husband and children. I'm thankful for the rest of my family: parents, brother, aunts, uncles and cousins. I'm thankful that all of us are in good health and we all have jobs and roofs over our heads. I'm...

Hello, my name is Earth Muffin and I'm a coffee snob. I am not ashamed of this. My husband is a coffee snob too. We freely admit it and we're proud of it. We can both drink tap water, cheap wine, generic soda and juice. We're picky about beer...

Big M. has a list of chores to do for which he earns a meager allowance. Most of these chores are pretty quick and easy for him to do and he is, for the most part, pretty good-natured about doing them. Except for the yard work. Oh, how he hates...

Last April the trailer for the Where the Wild Things Are movie started circling the internet. I can remember all 4 of us huddled together around the computer watching it, loving every precious second of it and wishing it were just a little bit longer....