In the trenches with teens

Editor’s note: I asked a gal who is raising teens to review Kenda Dean’s Almost Christian book. Jennifer’s review folos. Almost Christian, by Kenda Creasy Dean Reviewed by Jennifer Pursley Kenda Creasy Dean’s Almost Christian is a response to a longitudinal study by Christian Smith and Melinda Denton at Notre Dame University.  Dean helped with [...]

Baby XXL

I hold the family record thus far for the biggest babies. My oldest, Stephan, was 21 inches and a whopping 9 lbs. 6 oz. He was followed by the twins who weighed in at 14 lbs. total, tho, by comparison they were petite. Then came Konnie at 9 lb. 7 oz but only 19 inches [...]

Plane fight with my anti-ego

I’m not quite sure this counts as a moral dilemma but it might. I had to change my flight out of D.C., which meant I basically went on same day standby. There was a mix-up and the board meeting I thought was on Wednesday was actually on Friday. Not a problem except Friday was my birthday and [...]