Summer is on my mind. The kids will go off in different directions for sleep-away camp, leaving my husband and I alone for nine whole days. I want to plan a road trip up the California coast for the two of us, but I’m usually not very good at getting around to plans like this…. [Continue]

Yesterday I went on an all-day field trip to the Museum of Tolerance with my daughter’s fifth grade class. The Tolerance Center exhibit was fantastic, and today I’m going to see if I can find enough good online material for column on tolerance.

One of this week’s highlights was my son making it onto the high-school speech team. He will be competing in “Original Prose Poetry,” so he will get a chance to show off his writing (which I think is excellent.) Another thrill was seeing six of my e-books being sold through Amazon. If you’ve read any… [Continue]

Our spring-break college tour was great fun! Even though many thought our efforts premature (my son is just a freshman), we learned a lot. For example, my son agonized a great deal about whether or not to take AP Chemistry next year. But based on what we learned last week, because he is interested in… [Continue]