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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 town...

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 of ...

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 my inbox.

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 - surround...

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 the...

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 (again) ...

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 experiment.

Getting a ...

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 of...

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: Come on! Why can’...

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 ho...

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 th...

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 concrete.

I never really...