A few days ago, my oldest daughter Luisa, who is eight years old, fell while playing on our living room and smacked her head on the carpeted floor. She was playing some sort of Barbie acrobat game with her sisters and hit the back of her head. Aside from yelling “ouch!” she bounced right back [...]

Where is new media going? Actually where is all media going?
More importantly, can my Italian bun follow along?
I used to spend the majority of my time free-lancing for newspapers, I now spend the majority of my time pretending I know what everyone is talking about when they tell me to put HTML codes, [...]

April is the month of the Military Child!
Being a military spouse isn’t easy; being a military child is even more challenging. Military spouses make a more or less conscious choice to be part of the extended military family, but children are born into this lifestyle. There are many great things about growing up in the extended military family, but this lifestyle can also present challenges for our little heroes. And indeed they are heroes, who make big sacrifices for their families and their country.
Military kids deal with moves, leaving …

In the pre-kids and husband’s era I was a semi-professional dancer.
I say semi-professional because I only made it to Off-Broadway. Fifteen years ago I got a starring role as a girl who danced onto the stage, threw a roll of toilet paper toward the audience and ran out.
After that dazzling performance, I [...]

I have two main requirements for a new product for my kids. It has to be practical, and it has to be cute. Okay, amend that, I have lots of things that aren’t practical but are cute (can you hear me, Hello Kitty mini water cooler?). I’m mostly concerned with adorable little [...]

When my husband tries to put Parmesan on his pizza I want to bite his head off slice off and get it over to the righteous side - the one that eats pizza correctly.
I have to restrain myself from leaping across the table and yelling inches from his face with hands flapping up and [...]

Well, I wanted to write this long entry about my post-crush status and my stellar behavior - let’s just say that a teenager high on cold medicine would have acted far better than I did. Nothing happened but still the behavior is what counts. More on that after I’m done with my impending book deadline.
Yes, [...]