The Christmas gift no one wanted. Except me.

A song keeps playing in my head: 'Where's the love?' Indeed, where ís the love?! And is there enough of it going around? So busy with living Sometimes I'm so busy living, keeping the kids from killing themselves and each other, I forget about the love. It's hard to feel the love when they walk...

I've been reading Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Readingby Nina Sankovitch, and I was struck by something she said about rekindling your sex life. Especially in the light of the recent hype surrounding the softporn book 'Fifty Shades of Grey. Nina advises to have a glass of wine, read a good...

With four older siblings I could see my youngest son struggling to find his niche. My eldest daughter's niche is easy: her niche is simply Being The Eldest. Then comes my son Jan, who's a bit different because he's got a diagnosis of PDD-NOS. So that's his niche taken care off. After that comes my...

Do you know the movie Serendipity? It's all about the idea that if something is meant to be, it will happen. This week I encountered my own kind of serendipity. Here's what happened. Serendipity Two weeks ago I was walking around this thrift store when I spotted this really ugly garden gnome. Some might even...