The boys know you as an optimist, an innovator and a culinary wizard.  Thanks for helping them hone skills and for sparking hobbies, for hol...

Sometimes I think of the boys like seed packets  but maybe with the labels rubbed off? Our job to feed and water, to send them out for suffi...

June arrives freighted with possibility.  Summer’s first act, the whole season ahead looming in the imagination: berries and barbecues and b...

There were baseball games and a block party, the candy parade and community picnic An invitation to Apple Valley Lake with fishing and brisk...

Tomorrow Hank finishes kindergarten and Tolliver wraps up fourth grade and Tucker returns from seventh grade camp -- and summer begins!

Hank spent every spare moment this weekend folding paper to make origami dragonflies. When he wasn't in the graduation party pool or dec...

May's weather has been about as unreliable as I feel - sunny, hailing, near perfect, rain. A complete pageant of meteorology. And of hum...