That beautiful season! It's the time of year when birds sing, flowers blossom, children play outside, and I - I kill every green thing I put my hand to. (Spoiler for those of you checking out that link: they all die. Well, no, wait, the strawberries lived and may even ...

No, that's a real book. It sounds like a cheesy infomercial tag, doesn't it? But yesterday, Max did something momentous. He finished his 100th lesson. Before we started, he knew the alphabet and how to read his name, and now he is reading at a second grade level. I was going ...

Why, hello there . . . I'm a piano. A month or so ago, our piano finally made it out of storage - aka my bedroom closet - and back to the place in the living room usurped by our Christmas tree. (I would like to reassure all the horrified members ...