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Morale is one of those terms you hear a lot, but it’s never exactly clear what some users mean when they use it.  We have all heard about organizations and individuals with good morale and bad morale, and we all seem to have a...

My seven cats, though free to roam the great outdoors at will, are never far from the front porch.  Pretty much anywhere you look, you see at least several completely useless cats lounging around.  Favorite spots include the...

Another week, another comic book controversy. You may be surprised to hear that, of all things, Archie Comics has stirred up a fuss, but that isn’t actually surprising at all (which I’ll get to in a moment). This week, the issue...

For years I have been trying to impress upon my girls my tried-and true fashion mantra – looks before comfort.  It’s a mantra that I adopted sometime during college when it was the norm to trudge along to fraternity parties...

A few friends have asked me recently for my thoughts on the Watchmen prequels—I think most people these days are kind of aware that Watchmen exists and is a graphic novel (a movie came out a couple years ago that didn’t at all...

There are so many wonderful options available by which to torture your children and, God knows, I try to take advantage of as many of them as I can.  As if forced church attendance weren’t enough to qualify me for “Mean Mom”...

They go by different names – inflatables, bounce houses, moon bouncers.  At our house, we call them jumpy things.  In any event, among the 1st grade boy crowd, jumpy thing birthday parties are the coolest thing around. It’s easy...