neVer forgeT 16 Apr 2013 | 11:07 pm

The following tribute was written by one of my journalistas. It will appear in next week's edition of our high school newspaper. Six years ago, a lone gunman took the lives of 32 people at Virginia T...

I Feel Pretty 10 Apr 2013 | 09:01 am

The thermometer outside read 89; Room 215's temps soared higher, I'm sure. The Yearbookies were squawking and squeaking and carrying on. Classes that meet after lunch often feature a more animated me...

She Loved Life 9 Apr 2013 | 06:01 pm

News accounts from six years ago characterized Leslie Sherman as "everybody's cheerleader," but that superlative doesn't begin to capture the person that she was. She was a daughter - to Holly and To...

Panda-Monium 13 Mar 2013 | 06:25 am

It's Only High School 6 Mar 2013 | 06:02 am

Don't Toy with Me 4 Mar 2013 | 06:21 am

I live in the DC area. Three  years ago, we had two winters, with a huge Christmas Week storm (luckily, I was visiting the OBX at the time) and another one at the beginning of February 2010. During th...

Two Turtle Doves 1 Jan 2013 | 10:01 am

Today's the day many of us ring in the new by cleaning up the old. Decorations packed carefully away; trees plopped randomly by the curb. Resolutions scratched on the slate of the new year. For high ...

Family Law 27 Dec 2012 | 12:50 am

I just returned from dropping my chicas at the airport. Yes, we had the predictable post-Christmas weather to deal with - Ella Numera Dos was delayed again and again by snow then sleet then freezing r...

And a Partridge in a Pear Tree 25 Dec 2012 | 09:22 pm

A Cat's Christmas Courtesy of the Infinite Cat Project 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse 'Cuz the cat had pounced on him and t...

Angels, We Have Heard on High 18 Dec 2012 | 07:06 am

"The ideologies of my past career are no longer relevant to the future that I want, to the future that I demand for my children." ~ Joe Scarborough, former Republican congressman; former NRA suppor...