Deciding what to wear in the spring is complicated. The typical forecast on any given day in upstate New York ranges from snow and wind...

On a beautiful, fall afternoon in 2001, I stood in a parking lot with my future husband, Andy. It was the kind of day you see in...

Melissa opens the door to her mid-century ranch home, kicking her pumps into the corner of the welcome mat. She places her keys in a bowl...

Anything I can do, I can do better. If I had a motto in life, this is it. I am an anxious perfectionist. I set standards for myself that...

Beads of sweat run down the back of my neck. I keep my gaze down to watch for roots and rocks on the trail. Each step is carefully...

I live in a house with two girls, ages 10 and 14. We have lived almost every moment of each day of the last year together. My girls spend...

I was in my office, replying to email number fifty of the day, when I noticed a voice mail awaiting me. A professional connection asked...

The sun reflects off the freshly fallen snow, causing a million little sparkles. The sky is deep blue and cloudless. Everything is bright...

I was in my pajamas, snuggled under a blanket, melting into the calm of evening, when my husband asked me to pick up the pizza with him....

On January 1, 2020 I began the Keto diet. Weight gain caused by a combination of an injury-induced retirement from running, and the joys...

Social media is the modern, town square stoning. Social media makes it hard for people to hide behind their horrible, often illegal...

As a career services higher education professional, I provide advice to job seekers on how to positively position themselves to be...

Remember the book and movie Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants? It's a feel-good, coming-of-age story about the bonds of female...

I take pride in my vehicle. I purchased my first car, a 1987 Saab 900s, from a friend in 2001. With some basic coaching from her, I...

Three years ago, I had a brief and tumultuous relationship with a Facebook troll named Polly Baker. My husband, Andy, was the incumbent...

It had just started to rain when I dropped you off at school so I jumped out of the car to grab an umbrella from the back. You carried...

In honor of our 16th wedding anniversary, I sat down with Andy to reflect on nearly two decades of partnership. On a sunny weekend...

I am annoyed with the words we are using. I am irked by the sentences we are constructing and the phrases that we over use and over. I'm...

I took the girls back-to-school shopping last weekend. The act of back-to-school shopping has never been a top activity of mine because...

I don't believe in lying to my children. It can cause some awkward conversations, like when I'm asked what Mommy and Daddy were doing in...