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From now until the Winter Solstice on December 21st, we will be experiencing some of the year’s darkest, shortest days. I used to hate stumbling around with the kids and their bookbags at 5 p.m. in the early dark. I still find it harder to rise at 6:30 a.m. to walk the dog before sunrise.…

As an act of atonement, I guess, Phillip-Morris has launched a television ad campaign and a website to counsel parents on how to prevent their kids from smoking cigarettes. Here’s a chart they use to explain why kids keep smoking: “stress relief”–a.k.a. not looking cool–apparently is the most common reason.

Here is the most beautiful description of why believing in something made-up and then not believing in it is a wonderful part of growing up. What follows is from Betty Smith’s famous novel “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”; it was sent to me by “Urban Shaman” Donna Henes. In the passage an immigrant grandma, Mary…

Well, the eldest Chattering son desperately wants a cellphone for Christmas. To him, it’s a symbol of being grown up. I am in the minority of parents concerned about cellphone health risks; my own cell leaves my cranium with a warm, tingling feeling every time I foolishly indulge in a long conversation without the hands-free…
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