It really was no miracle.

What happened was just this... Last Fall, I made the very personal confession that I struggle with nightmares. Back then I was experiencing these bad dreams 6 out of 7 nights. I dreaded going to sleep. But it's gotten a lot better. Two nights ago, I had a nightmare, again. And then yesterday I had a really crappy ...

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 ...

Over the Rainbow

Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high, there's a land that I heard of, once in a lullaby. If the Sex and the City ladies are my best adult girlfriends, then Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz gang were my dear childhood playmates. You see, for me, The Wizard of Oz was more than a film. More than a musical, or ...