So I had a small nervous breakdown the other morning. As I mentioned in my holiday letter, Elfie has been getting "mean girled" at school recently. She's in first grade, and even though I know kids are capable of this type of thing starting at birth, it's been depressing because her school really focuses on [...]

Before I start this, let me just say that I know I'm a big, lucky whiner. I don't have to worry about going to the market and not coming home because someone blew me up with a car bomb. I know the water I'm drinking won't give me cholera. Hell, I don't even have to [...]

So I haven't been dead or under a rock.  I've just been in Denver (And, no, that isn't some backhanded comment about Denver, which would be lovely even if you were somehow under a rock.  Dead, not so much.).  I still can't quite believe it myself, but I was on a real live girls' weekend.  [...]

So I've cracked open the Halloween candy (managing to hold off for five whole hours after buying it) because I'm self-medicating with chocolate.  I've never really thought of myself as an "emotional eater" (and, seriously, I hate all of that psycho-mumbo-jumbo, not because it's untrue but because it's been so done to death by talk [...]

So at the risk of bringing everyone down, I'm having a rough day.  Couple of days.  Actually, make that a couple of weeks.Even if you know me personally, you most likely have no idea that I've been having a rough time.  Because that's what I do.  I just power through.  I take the kids to [...]

I don't know if it's because we're coming up to the end of summer, but I've been reading a lot of blog posts about how quickly childhood slips away and how parents need to cherish every moment of it.  And I really have to say. . . it's kind of starting to piss me off.Not [...]

I've been thinking about this a lot, and I've come to the conclusion that being married to an Emergency Room doctor kind of sucks.  Not in the way that most outsiders would probably think.  Sure, in the beginning there was that whole "fear of needle sticks giving him HIV" thing, but you get over that [...]

There's nothing quite like a vacation to show your family what it's really made of. It's like life on steroids.All things considered, I wouldn't say we're on the Mark McGwire of trips right now, but we're still on some serious roids. Tenzin, the kids, and I are driving across eastern Nevada on the "Loneliest Road" [...]

The other day, while driving the kids to school, I noticed something odd. I was, for lack of a better word, "happy." This probably sounds terrible to people who either 1) walk around believing they're happy when they're probably just content, or 2) believe you should be happy all or most of the time and [...]