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It’s been my habit for years. Every night before I go to sleep, I pull an index card out of the top drawer of my bedside table. I jot down the “to do’s” floating around in my head. When I’m done, the card might include appointments for the next day. It might note errands or…

The other night, Penny and William and I were reading Corduroy, a children’s book about a bear in a department store. A little girl saves her money to buy the bear. And they all lived happily ever after. As we were reading, Penny asked, “Mom, what’s a piggy bank?” I said, “Oh, it’s a place…

Mary Karr’s three memoirs all made the bestseller lists, beginning with The Liar’s Club back in 1995, and then Cherry in 2000, and finally, in 2009, with Lit. I started with the Liar’s Club last month, and I didn’t let much else interrupt as I followed Karr’s life story from her childhood in East Texas to…

The age when Americans are getting married is on the rise, and even more people than ever are living together before marriage (see Time’s “Who Needs Marriage?”). In contrast to an earlier generation, many “baby boomers” encourage their children to wait to get married. They want their children to be secure–financially, educationally, and emotionally. And…
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