GG absolutely loves Wii. She was on a bowling hot streak one night when she missed her spare. “D@*$ !” Huh? “What did you say?” She said it again. I picked up my jaw off the floor and flashed back to the first time I said a …um… chosen word in my mom's presence. Before I continue, you’ve got to understand...

*BFF is internet-speak for Best Friend Forever. It's the only internet- speak I know besides FYI, LOL, ROFLMAO. “Now….are you crying because it’s that time of the month, or uh…..” That was my Beloved's response to me crying over a working-mother dilemma I was facing. Bottom line is this: there...

Thanks to the Journal Sentinel series Wasted in Wisconsin , I think a lot of necessary attention is being turned to drunk driving. I’m highly aware of alcohol issues because I work for IMPACT . We assess convicted drunk drivers to determine if they have major alcohol problems; and if they do, we connect...

I was never a whiz at math. I mean, really – I once asked our algebra teacher why we had to solve an equation if we already knew that 6x = 18 . My poor mom – she put in countless hours trying to tutor me on the FOIL method alone. By the time I’d finally get a concept, our class was moving on to a new...

Good comedy's all about timing ; and if you were at Red Arrow Park's Slice of Ice this past Friday around 2:00ish, you probably got some great comedy from the adults there skating badly. VERY badly. Like this one woman -- she oozed cockiness as she came out of the skate rental place with her...

This time of year known as the Holiday Season to everyone else is known as Year End to those of us in the non-profit world. Now's when we make our last push to get those extra donations in to meet our budgets and fundraising goals, so we send out letters, double-check with funders that we've...

4 days until D-Day – or shall I say the B-Day ( although, technically, GG’s birthday is indeed D-Day/Pearl Harbor ). Anyway, she’s turning 6 on Sunday, and I’m not quite sure what to do with myself. I don’t know if has to do with hormonal stuff that women go through when they reach a certain age, or...

My BFF Amy emailed me the following message: So Holly comes to my bedside this morning, wakes me up, and asks me why the tooth fairy didn't come last night. There goes my Mother Of The Year award....geez. She's got three kids, ages 10, 9 and 7, so Amy gets a pass. The Tooth Fairy's visited...