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You win. Someone else loses. It's scholarship time in the Knitternall home, and each application has become a moral dilemma for our gr...

I don't remember a single time in my childhood when there was a FOOD recall. The one time I got sick was after a meal at McDonald's,...

I just spent the better part of the four-day holiday catching up on a mountain of chores. Understandably, we let most things slide while the...

I've noticed times when favorite blogs go silent for awhile. Sometimes it's a week. Often it's longer. I always understood that ...

The teen and I just finished his last required hike for the BSA hiking merit badge. We trod seventy miles on the Big Tree Greenway, over Ke...

It borders on the ludicrous.  I have broken an ankle, hobbled on it for two days because I had too many appointments, then finally driven my...

When news writers raise alarms about biological warfare, viruses let loose accidentally by the CDC, bird flu, patches of black ice on the ro...

Today is A's seven-week Remicade treatment, so I've taken a day off from the Nature Center. We'll get to the infusion lab at GI ...

My son is reluctant to get his driver's license. Prudently, he's aware of the heavy toll on teenage lives this frantic Atlanta traff...

This week is Spring Break for AG and AM. Since AM had a Remicade treatment scheduled Monday, we stayed in town (we never know whether he...

Double mascara alert: after I dropped off AG at school this morning (no power, major storm just roared through), I tuned into Q100 and heard...

It's been a busy week of constant hat-changing. I've published the workbook for the next Preschool Phonics classes, conferenced with...

I can't have a cold. Despite evidence to the contrary, I cannot be sick. 1. My son has Crohn's, and the Remicade treatment gives him...

There's a reality check in any family's life. Ours was the impact of medical costs. We are grateful for the exemplary care our son h...

As always, I'm between things. Just returned from AG's choir practice and waiting to go pick up A from Mock Trial practice. T in New...