Ever eaten opossum? You won’t after you read this
He might eat you before you can eat him I was at a conference last weekend. I’m not going to tell you which one because I

Weekly parent: not appropriate for school (NSFS)
Here’s an excerpt from my weekly “parenting” column: Every once in a while I feel guilty about not volunteering at my kids’ school more often. That’s when I make the mistake of blurting out half-baked ideas. Ideas like: “Hey, I want to help the fifth-graders produce a school newspaper.” An idea to which my daughter’s teacher

A writer’s experiences
I just took a long walk on the beach. I spent most of that time thinking about how to describe that walk. Which, I realized, is how I spend much of my life–instead of experiencing it, I write about. Or, at least, I think about how I would write about it. Luckily for my readers, most of what I write in my head never makes it out my fingertips. My 11-year-old daughter has the same habit. She carries around

Weekly parent: Waste not, want not
This week’s column is kind of a love letter to polar bears. Since this week’s Mountain Xpress is the Green Living issue, I’m tackling the subject of living sustainably. And explaining why both polar bears and you are awesome. I often dish about saving the earth. But really, I�

Weekly parent: kitty fat camp…at our house…your cat’s not invited, though
Here’s the first installment in The Rocky Project