Going to the library with two kids is always an adventure -- usually starts out fun and ends with me grabbing Pippi's hand and hustling ...

I didn't attend last week's rally and protest by supporters of Wake County's now-eliminated diversity policy. My reasons for no...

I'm not exactly sure how this happened yesterday, but at some point Pippi (shown here, imprisoned in her crib for time-out) smuggled a b...

Today's Friday's Five is a little random -- but there are a lot of loose ends I need to tie up this week and I don't have time f...

When my husband and I were first married, we had a Honda Accord and a Toyota Celica between the two of us -- both were paid for and working ...

Three years ago this month, my husband and I sold our house in Raleigh, packed up our stuff (and two-year-old Junius) and moved in with my p...

Last week my husband and I pulled out our passports -- I'm embarrassed to report that both had expired in 2003. It's one of those th...