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I'm sorry to say that the current tropical temperatures don't do my personality any favors... Normally I'm friendly and courteous. But when it's tropical hot I feel this overwhelming urge to slap people in their face. Like when they're taking up all of the aisle space in the supermarket. Or when they're dawdling. How the...

Everyone has them: odd habits. Mine is to take a giant leap every time I want to lie me down to sleep. I start out in the hall way, push off in our bedroom, and jump with all my might into our bed. I háve to do this, you understand. Otherwise the monster beneath our...

It's become fashionable to create a bucket list. A list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket. Usually there are things on that list like: Swimming with dolphins Traveling through India with just a backpack Making a trip in a hot air balloon Getting in a cage with a pair of...

I'm a feedback junkie. Which is unfortunate, because I'm a mom. Moms don't usually get much feedback, except when things go wrong. Like when you have the audacity to skip doing the laundry for óne day, then the feedback starts pouring in. 'Where are my socks, Mom?! Didn't you do my laundry?!' and 'Honey, I...

When I walked my two youngest to school last Monday I, whispered: 'Ot and Pete, do you realize this is the very last Monday we'll be walking this way to school? After we move to the country, we'll have to ride bíkes to get to your new school.' And when Tuesday arrived, I announced in...

Do you know those couples, who have lots of friends. They go on weekend getaways together, plan their holidays as a group, and generally look like they're living in a feel good movie? I am not one of those couples. My social life is as flat as a bottle of Coca Cola the kids forgot...