Clara started reading a new book today. The first page contained an epigraph. She read it aloud: "You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in…

I agree wholeheartedly with Truth Potato. A little bit of progress, made each day, amounts to something enormous over time. This is known as incrementalism. I wrote about it in…

Back in 2009, Domino’s Pizza's new president, Patrick Doyle, publicly announced in a commercial that his pizza sucked. He acknowledged that the Domino’s pizza of old simply was not very…

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, on average women spend 47 more minutes on housework than men do every day, which accumulates to about five and a half hours a week.…

My former student from 24 years ago - who later became my children's first babysitter and whose wedding I officiated a few years ago - sent this image to me,…

My kids have informed me that I am the soft parent and Elysha is the hard one. I'm so upset about this. Also excited. And so upset. And so excited.…

As a teacher and a writer, I often give parents advice on helping their children to become effective writers who (more importantly) love to write. My advice is simple: Be…

Less than 11 percent of Americans smoke tobacco. Also, for the first time ever, more Americans reported smoking marijuana (16 percent) than tobacco. When I turned 21 years old, nearly…