I would love to say that my post title ‘Madison believes in Santa Claus’ says it all, but I really do have to explain. Madison is as different from my other children as night is to day, or as the…
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Christmas is a time of year for family and appreciating what you have, but that doesn’t make it any less of a minefield to navigate. Cramming all those people into a small house and filling them with wine and mince…
Even people who have never had a panic attack in their lives typically experience some degree of travel anxiety. Leaving the comfort of our routines can be scary (even if all we do is complain about those very routines). Riding…
Growing up in New York City and having kids, one of the things that we always looked forward to in the summer was the Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Program. Every summer the kids would read their favorite books, list…
The weather is getting cooler and cooler and if you’re anything like me, you’d be thinking of leaving the cold weather for somewhere warm and tropical. If you’ll be traveling to the islands or even Florida soon, there are a…
Our brains are built to find shortcuts. These shortcuts minimize the processing power that we waste on routine things. However, they can also get us stuck in ruts. Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray Love was all about travel as the…
