In the other room, a volcano seemed to be exploding. I quickly realized it was my 13 year-old son who had just gotten very frustrated with his iPod and launched it across the room. I was on the phone with a client and my husband was out of town. Seemed like an impossible situation just then. I wrapped up my

COME to Simple Dinner. Every Sunday night, 5-8, my house Please bring whatever is already in your kitchen: leftovers, jars of olives, cheese, that foil wrapped experiment, etc. No preparing food. WE MEAN IT. No RSVP Imagine a relaxing evening where you don’t cook a thing or eat out. It is a carefree evening spent over a beautiful meal, catching

“I’m scaring my kids,” she said as she sat in my office one summer day. “What scares me the most is that I don’t know how to make this different for me or for them.” This is a common theme I hear from parents. They’re feeling completely spent, whether they’re going through a rough patch with their spouse, have just

Tell us a little about your family and what healthy eating means to you. Our family has been on the path toward healthier eating since 2004. I really see it as a continuum and feel good about each step we make, trying not to get hung up on perfection or doing it all at once. To me, healthy eating means

My family has dinner together every night. Most days, I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to cook. I don’t want to deal with arguing at the table. I don’t want to work on table manners or conversation skills. Yet, I try to do it every night. The experts, say it matters. We sit at a round table and

“He drew a circle that shut me out, Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had wit to win. We drew a circle that took him in.” I sang a song in church this past Sunday called Circle. I’d never heard it before it was given to me, but I fell in love with it the moment