My husband’s family lives in Canada, so we are well acquainted with long road trips. With small children in tow, an estimated 18-hour trip can easily stretch

I used to be a quiet, more reserved person, only sharing my opinion or pleading my case when asked. Perhaps due to age, a

When your child has special needs, much of the day, and sometimes even the night, is spent taking care of someone extremely dependent upon

My husband and I decided to make our new year’s resolutions much simpler this year by consolidating them into one, easy-to-remember word: declutter. We made

Everyone warned me that when I turned 40 the dreaded mammogram would be there to welcome me. It is like a rite of passage into

As parents, we are all aware of the need to advocate for our children. But, when you have a special needs child, the stakes

As most parents are privy to, summer is not the time of year to get things done. Once the kids are out of school,

Traveling can take a lot out of you and can even leave you with the need for a vacation to recover from your vacation. It is

Being a parent is demanding and intense, but so is being an artist. It can feel like a constant tug of war. When I

Finding the right school to meet the unique challenges of our special needs child has been like trying to locate a needle in a

Winter can feel so dead when seeing the trees, gray and bare, seemingly lifeless against the flat whitewashed sky. Within those outstretched branches one

I rarely accomplish my new year’s resolutions. There, I said it and the transparency removes a load of burden from my shoulders. Sure, like

I belong to a game-playing family, a love that is especially exercised around the holidays when looking for gift ideas and spending wintery nights

Having traveled and lived abroad, I have encountered a wide variety of welcomes, some of which still challenge me in creating a more generous

Words and how we use them have a special emphasis in our family. Our son, a chatterbox, expresses himself to anyone who will listen. He

Have you ever had the desire to be part of something more

It doesn’t take long after a new school year begins for our family to realize we need to dial back our activities. With the start

I consider myself a rather ambitious person. One who loves feeling efficient and admits an obsession for maximizing the hours of my day to

With the ante of life’s busyness increasing on our family of four every year, my husband and I decided to implement the discipline of

When living in the big city, we are likely to rub shoulders and dwell in close quarters with people who seem to have no time for

I don’t think there is a day that goes by in which I manage to escape extending or asking for forgiveness. I used to

Having a special needs child requires a certain amount of organization to cope with the endless piles of paperwork. In just the first five