When the question of renting came up, my husband offered to let them live with us. So we sat down to talk about what this would look like. Our most important concerns came out first.

While preparing for an overnight boating and camping trip, and my husband puttering around with fishing poles while I packd clothes, prepared food, and checked lists, I drew this.

My favorite kind of parent are those who don’t pretend life is glitter and butterflies all the time. Let’s be honest: if your kid has never been in timeout or had that mean-fast-parent-walk head towards them, you should get some sort of medal.

I started to feel kind of ticked, like I had this claim on my son's name and she shouldn't use it just because Sheryl Crow blasted such a cool name on the cover of People magazine.

I find cat videos to be funny, and cat people will watch anything with a cat. Here you go.

I’m going to tip my hand—my wholehearted belief is that parents own this task.