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As I’ve moved eastward, I’ve become more suburban. Though I still consider myself a city girl, loving the amenities of urban life, I do admit the suburbs have some benefits, especially when kids are in the picture. Today I came across a blog dedicated to researching and writing about sma...

In two days, the Iowa caucuses will convene once more. This time around, voters will come together to stand for their choice in the Republican presidential primary contest and I will remember the thrill of caucusing for my first and only time on a chilly January evening in Des Moines four years ago....

I guess I was lucky that I was pulled off a plane by armed men, frisked, hands and feet splayed on the side of a police car and taken to a police building where I was held, strip searched and interrogated for four hours without really knowing why I was there. I was lucky in [...]

Thanks to everyone who shared their advice and comments and voted in the poll about our newest members of the family–our two cats. The bolder one of the two has been spotted at night and during quiet times of the day (when the children are not around) exploring the house, eating food and hidin...

Yesterday we adopted two cats. They’re brothers, and they’re four years old. But now we can’t find them. Once they were let out of their cat carriers from their old owners, they bolted. We haven’t seen them in almost a day. This was to be expected. Cats–especially these...

Life in Ohio is returning normal, though what is normal is still being defined. The kids are in school, I am not working at an 8-5 job, my husband is on the crazy roller coaster that is residency, and I am figuring out what this new normal is for me. Having time to think, to [...]