When my two sisters and I were kids, our parents took a trip to Europe for a few weeks one summer. We could not go with them and were farmed out – literally – to the biggest farm I have ever seen. It belonged to the family of my older sister’s good friend. This farm

Summer is here and the skin is out. When my sons approached their teen years, they started to become curious about tattoos. I will admit I was never a fan, so I told them, “That’s my skin. I made it and I’m only letting you wear it.” That did the trick for a couple of

When two people fall in love and get married, there is a good chance that one or the other already has children from a previous marriage, suddenly launching the new spouse into instant parenthood. Most of the time that works just fine, with the children accepting their biological parent’s choice of a new partner and