
Independence
It's hard to come away from celebrating the United State's birth of independence and not be moved. We celebrate independence because a group of people, frustrated by what they outlined in the Declaration of Independence as an over-reaching and inappropriate use of...

Wave Etiquette
I love summer so much. The only thing I don't love ... well, there might be two things - are the heat (106 today - hey, our winters rock!) and the way days zip by. They begin and end almost before you blink. At least that's what I think. I know some might be weary...

Table Talk – A Cure for Summer Brain Drain by Alexandra Mayzler
Today's Table talk is by Alexandra Mayzler. I don't know Alexandra personally, but she reached out to me to ask if she could share some thoughts on an issue near and dear to her heart - kids and learning. And I thought what she had to say was a lot of fun. It might...

Who Came Up With That??
So many times I wonder, “Who came up with that?” And “Did they even think it through?!” I mean seriously. The number of things I could live without as a mother continues to rise. Not because they’re bad things. But because I constantly find myself digging out of a...

Table Talk: Do You Know You’re Beautiful? by Erin Schreyer
Today's Table talk is by our friend Erin Schreyer. When I saw the following FB post on Erin's page, I hounded her to write a moatblog entry on the subject. "When we mothers focus our attention and resources on trying to look younger, skinnier or different, we tell our...