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The following is an excerpt from Melissa Dalton-Bradford’s “On Loss and Living Onward”.   It’s a spring afternoon in 2009, nearly two years following Parker’s death, and the counselor at our children’s school in Munich has invited a short list of students and faculty, whom Dalton has hand selected, to gather in an empty upper floor […]

Playing dress-up is fun at any age, but let’s be real: it’s especially fun when you’re a kid. There’s the typical way of playing dress-up: taking your parents’ clothes and having them sag off your waist while your feet shuffle in clown-sized shoes. But there are so many other things to dress-up in! Try some of

Mega Cool Mama is run by Angela Concha who, just as her blog name states, is one Mega Cool Mama. As a Spanish teacher, active blogger, author, and mother of three, her dedication to her family is evident in her fun posts on cooking, playing, and crafting—all for the kids of course! “I put a

Tis the season to begin baking! What would the Holidays be like without the intensive and extensive hours spent in the kitchen prepping for celebrations of seasonal cheer? Cookies are an intrinsic tradition. Every family has their favorites whether it’s green sugar cookies cut in the shape of a tree or Grandma’s secret gingerbread recipe.

I’m all for traditional fruit salads. Just give me a bowlful of my mom’s classic combo of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, watermelon, grapes, and cantaloupe and I’m satisfied–especially when she spreads her famously delicious creamy whip across the top (with a smidgen of brown sugar). No question about it, tartness and sweetness are a match made

As a single mom, I desperately want to create unity in my family. I don’t want to be defined by the rising trend of selfishness, or distracted by the “now” of technology. I want my children to love and care for one another. I want to grow old listening to them share stories of “remember

I didn’t stop reading because we had a riff in our friendship, or even because her blog became less interesting to me. The fact of the matter is, I stopped reading all my favorite blogs about two years ago. I didn’t have that many to begin with—somewhere between five and ten that I would check

Some time ago I overheard a discussion between a little boy and his mother. The topic was his kind deed which she had posted on a social media site. When people began to comment about his kindness, the boy was disturbed, and although not able to fully express the reasons for his distress, he let

          …because, dudes, that’s what history really is—a story. In fact, it’s THE story of everything and everybody! And there’s nothing cooler than stories—you know it, I know it, and the babies in their strollers know it.           Let me give you an example—just a teenie-weenie one out of all the awesome stories that make