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When I was in Oaxaca last week, my friend Vanessa and I took a couple of day trips to small villages outside of the city.

We wanted to visit two...

Last night, I showed my kids videos I took in this little village that made me feel like I had walked right onto the set Coco (which is impossible...

A few months ago, despite being subscribed to waaaay too many newsletters, I signed up to get Merriam-Webster's “word of the day," daily in...

A few years ago, I spent a couple of weeks at the Jersey shore.

I was there with my two daughters, my friend Louise, her two daughters and -...

I have twin seniors applying to college at the very same time, and this is the key month for early applications.

What does that mean?

Aside from...

I was trying not to curse at the M23 bus driver as he cut me off on my drive across 23rd street the other morning, my three kids in tow, late...

I swear I was trying to simplify my life but three days into my new flip phone I feel…frenetic.

This wasn’t supposed to be an...

I once sat on a bee.

I was playing with my sister Jill in our NJ backyard, doing a pretty awesome reenactment of the Magic Garden (a favorite show...

Whenever I set my alarm at the ungodly hour of 5am, my first thought is: Holy crap, I’m so tired, I can’t move.

My next thought is:...

I want to share the meaning of the Spanish word querencia.

I learned about it a few weeks ago, after one of my teenage daughters, Maddie, spent 40...

It was a warmish night during rainy season in my beloved Costa Rica (aka my spirit homeland).

My twin girls were 8 years old and I remember waking...

I didn’t know how to make cement from scratch, it’s not exactly a New Yorker type of activity, even though I’m surrounded by...