Milking it.

My daughter is quite the crafty one. She is smart and creative. She can use her precociousness and persuasiveness simultaneously and deliberately, so this girl rarely hears "no" from people other than her primary caregivers and authority figures (really, just her parents and teachers). Which means that I had to get really clever, myself. My daughter, the ...

“Once Upon a Time…”

"...in a quiet village, there lived a girl named Cinderella. But she was very very kind to animals and she feeded her animals. They were very nice to Cinderella. One was named Gus. She had to leave to go to the ball but she had to leave at midnight but she left a glass slipper ...

Bippity Boppity Boo-Boo

When I wrote about my magic power, a whole, long 8 1/2 months ago, I failed to take one, salient thing into consideration; I did not yet know that when a mommy is sick with a stomach bug, and her baby leans over and gives her the sweetest, gentlest, softest little kiss, it makes the mommy all better, just as quickly ...