In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the heroine asks “What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as...

The Wall Street Journal ran a charming article on the rise of the use of Scottish dialect on Twitter. For those of you with a...

It snowed the day before Halloween, where I live. The day after, CVS and Walgreens had their Santa displays already up. Last week, I...

Now that he has navigated Halloween successfully—his costume received lots of complements and he picked up enough candy to hold him until...

The animated show Captain Underpants (created by cartoonist Dav Pilkey) aired a Halloween episode earlier this week. For those of you...

My husband was out walking a couple of evenings ago when he passed a cyclist on a tandem bike in our neighborhood. The cyclist, full of...

My son’s Little League team won their game last Sunday. (If you do Little League, you will know about “Fall Ball”). Despite a...

The father of one of my son’s schoolmates approached me on a field trip. He mentioned that he was thinking, maybe, of attending one of...

By her own account, Meghan Trainor’s song “All About That Base”, makes a statement that a woman with a large, well, “base” can still be...

In an attempt to catch me up in the ongoing video game revolution that I have mostly missed, my husband has educated me about certain...

My niece requested for her birthday a gift certificate from a certain clothing store she “frequents”. The quote marks are because she...

My family and I are currently enjoying The Inbestigators (indicating the best investigators) as our evening escapism. The Australian TV...

Last week, my family and I took a trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. We drove. (This, by the way, accounts for the missed blog last...

This past Sunday, my eleven-year-old son competed in his first ever parkour competition. For those of you who don’t know—like me a year...

For seven years, I ran a small, faith-based social-service agency in the near-west suburbs of Chicago. It is first and foremost a...

We give our eleven-year-old son an allowance so that he can learn the value of money, mainly by coming up against the cold, hard, adult...

For my first professional career, I worked as a stock market analyst in Hong Kong and, later, Shanghai. For those of you who have never...

Among Saturday Night Live’s (SNL’s) parody ads is one for “Alexa Silver”. You can watch the whole thing here. (Note: language and humor...

I was math-phobic in primary school. Perhaps that is an embarrassing admission for someone, who now makes her living running numbers. ...

Sesame Street, the longtime children’s educational show, turns 50 this year. Count Von Count introduced a recent radio segment, which...