Teen Years

  October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and the issue of bullying—both at school and through cyberspaces—continues to negatively affect the lives of children in...

I am car shopping, which is both exciting and nerve wracking. In my household are one teenager and one college student. Hence, the mixed emotions....

We are two weeks into the school year and already each of my children has dealt with a situation of gun violence. For my oldest,...

I started 2019 wondering if I had to sue my ex-husband or not. Happy new year to me. We have two kids, a son who...

The trip starts with snafus, because there always is a karmic, you-just-try-and-relax comeuppance before I attempt to slide away from real life into the magic...

The numbers tell a story I know too well. The same week as two celebrity suicides last month, the Centers for Disease Control released...

In college in the early ’90s, I studied for a semester at the University of Nice, one in a group of about 15 students...

Last year, I attended the senior awards ceremony at my daughter’s high school to see her be honored for serving as class president. It...

I ended 2017 with nine kid-less days. Nine days, no teens. In odd years, my children travel to Bozeman, Montana, to spend Christmas with...

When my daughter and her friends left for college this fall, there seemed to be a flood of emotion online. Suddenly everyone I knew...