I’ve just finished reading an advance review copy of Phillip Done’s (rhymes with “phone,” wish I’d known that four years ago) new book, Close Encounters of the Third Grade Kind: Thoughts on...

I’ve never had one of those naked-in-front-of-an-audience dreams, but I do have some of the other standards such as forgetting where class is, missing tests, and getting lost in hotels, malls, and campuses.

I mean, does it get any better than this? My ex-husband is so excited about my engagement to someone he admires that he is throwing me a get-together and inviting my parents while his parents are in town. Sha-ZAM! If that's not divorcing with Tendern...

Remember when a bunch of mom bloggers went to Cincinnati to visit with Pampers? Remember? No? The runs through O’Hare, the broken eyeglasses, the falls out of the limo? Still nothing?

These are the days it takes the entire family to pull together… It’s my ex-husband’s birthday today, and the family tradition for as long as we’ve had kids has been to go out for a big sushi dinner. So, today when I picked up the kids, they were fired...

I did a segment with ABC News about having fun doing homework with tweens, which is sort of like asking me to enjoy having Bugs Bunny teach me the quadratic formula. It’s eight minutes long, and I come in right at the end so if you want to see what I...

Daughter: Okay, okay, I didn’t really take a bath, I just rinsed my hair and brushed it.” Son: “That is not delightful.”

Kids have been back with me one day after being with their dad for five, and I am ready to strangle them already. Which is SO WRONG, considering they are about to leave over Thanksgiving for eight days, be back with me for two, and then I go to...

My Guy and I are heading to an 80’s party for my friend’s 40th birthday, and I just couldn’t bear to tease my hair and go all Belinda Carlisle, so I followed a friend’s advice and I’m now going as one of the Palmer girls from the video “Addicted to...