How long have you been a grown-up? Long enough to know what it means to hold down a job, a relationship, and be the primary caregiver to...

It’s our first video for the Be Who You Are album! Starring our daughter Violet Duguay – okay I am very biased here, but I think she does...

Woo hoo! It’s done! It’s done! The culmination of two years of blood, sweat and tears, and one big fundraising campaign, the Be Who You...

Flying on the trapeze is an excellent metaphor for life. Long ladders to climb, scary vantage points at which you consider how far you’ve...

On Tuesday morning, Richard and I heard the same bad news every other parent heard who has a child in the Los Angeles Unified School...

Have you ever seen a Shopkin? I hadn’t when Violet first started talking about them a few months ago. She held up a hideous piece of...

Combine a group of fourteen fantastic kids, their helpful parents, two barrels of Starbucks coffee, a boatload of Porto’s pastries and...

It’s mornings like this that make me appreciate the value of Red Tricycle, a lifeline in the form of a website and e-newsletter whose...

Violet believes in the Easter Bunny. Not in the ironic wink-wink roll-your-eyes but eat the chocolate anyway kind of way, but really and...

Violet was helping me make dinner the other night, and, as usual, was chatting away about her day at school and what the other kids were...

The first time Richard and I went to a Chuck E. Cheese with Violet, we vowed that we would never be back. But then one of her classmates...

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. So true. But comedy is something that can be learned, apparently. While we were in Miami on vacation...

Remember this record? I remember listening to it in the 70’s as a little kid and loving it! I hadn’t thought about it for decades until...

My nighttime rituals have changed a lot. I used to stay out late going to rock shows or hanging out with friends drinking wine, come home...

I love carnivals. I love the sleazy half-drunk ex-cons operating questionably built rides, I love the rigged games with crappy prizes,...

Here’s an adorable update for you on the life and times of Atticus, the kitten that we cut out of our wall on Saturday, July 21st. He is...

I’ve always known that I would never post a ‘cute kitten’ video on YouTube. And like most things I’ve ‘always known,’ I was completely...

I had a dream the other night that Richard and I moved to the country. There was a huge farm next door, so we took Violet to visit the...

Nothing says June fun like a re-evaluation of one’s New Year’s resolutions! I just re-read my post about patience back in January, and...

With the new year, I thought it might be appropriate to re-evaluate my nervous breakthrough and see how I’m doing on my personal journey...