A friend of mine came home one afternoon and noticed a long scratch down the side of his one-week-old minivan. “What happened?” he bellowed. His...
“I want a glass of water!” Most of us could write a book about bedtime excuses. With our own energy levels dragging, those stall tactics aren’t...
Do you have a grip on reality? Here’s a quiz to find out. Bob drives his bright red sports car 140 kilometres per hour on the highway and is pulled...
Through the open window, I heard my seven-year-old daughter, Trish, and her friends talking. I finished cleaning the room and was about to leave when...
I’m amazed how two empty trash cans left by the driveway can transform me from Mother of the Year to a raging inferno in two seconds flat. One...
“Your boys are going to make mistakes this year.” The priest in charge of my son’s college hall said this so definitively to the gathered parents...
Hands on her hips, eyes narrowed, my daughter glared at me. “Dad always takes me out for pizza on Friday nights,” she said. I sighed, gritting my...
