Perhaps this week’s column should be called On My TiVo. I love TV. It’s up there with my cat and my bookshelves as things I would never be willing to part with. (Of course, I mean after my family. Sigh.) And it’s a glorious time for television—maybe the best ever. So this week, I decided [...]
New Jersey has many wonderful independent bookstores run by dedicated bibliophiles that offer children’s programs, storytimes, indoor activities, and books galore... View Article
Do you have stacks of stories your kids have drawn for you? Does the spelling in all the thought bubbles... View Article
Whilst we are busy being thankful, it’s also ok to plan. It leaves more time for thankfulness on Thanksgiving. If... View Article
Well, Mommy Poppins has given you the skinny on birthday parties from ice cream bashes to museum shindigs and now... View Article
As the weather warms up we all want to be outside, but I’ve heard tales of April showers bringing May... View Article
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.–Pablo Neruda The cherry blossom petals flutter like... View Article
Sometimes you want to go where no one knows your name, but alas, you have to take the kids with... View Article
It’s time to hunker down with calories. Oh sure, some of us might be slipping into a bathing suit over... View Article
And they’ll shriek squeaks and squeals, racing ’round on their wheels. They’ll dance with jingtinglers tied onto their heels. They’ll... View Article
My 6th Annual Cookie Exchange party is coming up, and if I can manage to finish decorating the house, it... View Article
Culture. We all want it — and not just in our yogurt. We live next to one of the best... View Article
It’s the most wonderful time of the year again, when the children go back to school and everything on the... View Article
By now, many of you have probably organized your summer with military precision. I know I have. We have this... View Article
I really enjoy spring cooking. It beats spring cleaning, and the fresh flavors of ramps, asparagus, tiny potatoes and tangy... View Article
I think it’s safe to assume that most of us have watched, and rewatched, a slew of princess movies, and... View Article
Spring has sprung! I won’t belabor the fact that it’s barely been winter, since lately I seem fixated on the... View Article
This ridiculously mild winter has been running heaven, not too cold or too wet. I mean, I didn’t run of... View Article
As fans of movies from Studio Ghibli, particularly those directed by anime master Hayao Miyazaki — Ponyo, Kiki’s Delivery Service... View Article
I realize that we all feel stuffed from the holidays and either inspired or offended by all the happy magazines... View Article
This year will be my 5th Annual Holiday Cookie Extravaganza. We make the treats, we package them all pretty, and... View Article
I could go on and on about how much I love books — reading them, shelving them, smelling them, quoting... View Article
I love baking with my kids — except when I don’t. Saturday morning I was rushing to finish some desserts... View Article
Now that the kids are back in school, it’s time to start driving them all over the place for swimming,... View Article
Here we are in the dregs of summer. The coffee grounds. The crumbs. No longer are the glorious sun-soaked days... View Article
We were all snugly sleeping in our tent. The hubs and myself comfortably (mostly) on our bourgeois air mattress, and... View Article
This weekend is the breather between school ending, and camp and other summer activities beginning. It’s that time when we... View Article
June. Ahhh… The end of car pools, coats and homework crying fits. The beginning of summer, when the memory-making feels... View Article
Sometimes the full-throttle, leap-into-our-waiting-arms hug from a kid or two is the very reason we drag our tired selves out... View Article
Oh, Mothers. We get the love. We get the hate. We get the primordial hugs from the short people who... View Article
When I was a kid I loved being outside. My mom lived on a farm and my brothers and I... View Article
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh,... View Article
If your brood hasn’t experienced quite enough bonding and cabin fever courtesy of New Jersey’s many snow days, you’re in... View Article
Most of us are familiar with the celebrated Chinatown festivities in New York City that mark the Chinese New Year,... View Article
It’s been a year since I started Back to Me. Have I gotten back to me? Not really. It’s damn... View Article
I’m back to the blog. Why is this always such a long road for me? I spend my days thinking... View Article
My poor blog. I’ve let it down so. It was there for me. It was called Back to Me! It... View Article
Aw, Riggins. You break my heart. You want it all — in that Dillon, Tx kind of way. You want... View Article
I am overdue for recaps. Clearly, I have become a bit bored writing them, hence the weekly delays. It’s not... View Article
This was the episode with Bad Blair, who sits in her negligee and drinks whiskey with scuzzy guy. Bad Blair... View Article
I’m just going to launch into this one without a lot of preamble. We all know what status updates are,... View Article
With the mister still out of town, my lazy blogging has veered towards blog-negligence. I endure though and instead offer... View Article
We are headed into night 4 of daddy out of town and the kids and I are getting into a... View Article
It’s been a colossally crappy week for me for a variety reasons, from family stuff, to not having my favorite... View Article
I haven’t blogged in NINE days. 9. That’s almost two weeks. Sort of. What is happening to me? Where has... View Article
I’m quickly jotting down the movies that I have seen from this year’s Oscar nominees. I listed them in the... View Article
It’s been a whole two days since my last Friday Night Lights recap, but I am trying to get back... View Article
It happened. Saracen was benched. It makes football sense, even if isn’t what Coach’s heart wanted him to do. He... View Article