Whoever said that birth is the “miracle of life” never had kids because after those bundles of joy pop out of your lady parts, the real miracle is raising them to be civilized members of potty-trained society. As a dreamy adolescent, I believed that someday I would be a great mother. The basis for this […]
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The first and most important thing about our bike trip from Washington DC to Pittsburgh is that Team Do-Gooders Doing Good raised $6,000 for the South Hills Relay for Life. Woo hoo! Thank you to everyone who supported our ride and generously donated to the American Cancer Society’s life-saving mission. We started at Mile […]
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I was working at Universal Studios on December 1, 1988 when a crazy man approached the security gate and asked to see Michael Landon, who wasn’t there. When the two security guards in the booth turned him away, the crazy man shot and killed them both, then ran into what witnesses believed was the parking […]
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When my son, Michael, was five, he loved to play “soldier.” So when our neighbors, a retired Marine and his wife, invited him to go shopping with them at the local PX, he could barely contain his excitement, especially because they told him it was a place where “only soldiers could shop.” I’m not sure […]
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I could barely watch the Cincinnati gorilla video. I couldn’t stand to see that little boy being dragged through the water. I also couldn’t bear to hear the screams and commotion of the crowd, because every person who was not strapped in a stroller at that moment must have been horrified, knowing that in a […]
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Here it is: Pittsburgh ranks as the 27th fittest city among the 50 biggest metropolitan cities in the United States, according to the American Fitness Index. We are smack dab in the middle of the grid between Dead Last Indianapolis, cited for low activity levels, high smoking rate and high instances of chronic and mental […]
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I’m a city gal, born and bred. I didn’t grow up on a farm, so farming, farm animals, and country life are somewhat fascinating and foreign to me. This is why I’ve had a lot of fun visiting farms and talking to farmers recently while writing a cover story for Pittsburgh Parent. I had another […]
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I want to talk about the bathroom. I don’t mean this in a political way, even though our politicians appear to be in the midst of an epic and awkward public argument over bathroom assignment based on birth certificates and the presence or absence of telltale anatomy. No, I want to talk about the bathroom […]
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As I hopped on the trolley last week, the unusual presence of boys and girls, who would normally be in school, reminded me that it was the annual Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day. I love this event. I enjoy seeing the expressions of anticipation and hesitation on kids’ faces while they follow […]
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Fourteen years ago, an angel joined our family. Sparky was a young, black and white mixed breed dog that had been living at the animal shelter for several months. He was overweight, out of shape, and eating disgusting canned dog food that, by all appearances, went in and came out looking the same. Driving to […]
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