Columns & Collected Essays

My father-in-law thinks he’s a pirate. It started innocently enough, looking back.  My 10-year-old son, Andrew, and his grandfather,...

In 6th grade, I had to write my first big research paper. This paper was so enormous that it took the entire second half of the school...

The title sounds like the set-up for a joke, where a man walks into a bar with a duck on his right shoulder and a cat on his left. But,...

My son, Andrew, wants to know when he will be old enough to get a dog. The answer, scientifically speaking, is “When Mommy thinks you’re...

Happy New Year, everyone. In thinking about what to say at the beginning of 2012, I have decided to copy Harvard Business Review...

A note: This article was written by my husband, Brett, as a joke. He emulated my writing style and vented about me the way I always do...