We don't leave for the beach until Saturday, but I've already started mentally packing. Books, towels, chairs, swimsuit, sun hat, um...

Dear Junius -- Technically it's still your birth month for a couple more hours, so I'm going to just call this a victory. If you...

Two weeks ago, a dear friend of mine sent me an early morning email that was exactly what I needed. She's one of those friends who has k...

It was the verbal equivalent of the old yawn and stretch maneuver that you see a teen-age boy use in 1950s movies to inconspicuously put his...

This post is from my piece at last year's Listen to Your Mother show in Raleigh. You can watch me here , but I realized I never posted ...

My family didn’t take many big trips when I was a kid. We spent most summer vacations at North or South Carolina beaches or visiting my ...

For a woman who never played organized sports growing up – unless you count driveway kickball, which wasn’t really all that organized but ...