The other night, when I tiptoed into Alice's room to check on her, I found her still awake and whispering to her stuffed animals. ...

Moms and kids create their own books together at a literacy workshop. A project I am particularly proud to be part of is the Beyond Our...

Hello again. I hope you will forgive my absence. I have spent the past few months getting to know sweet Soledad, the newest addition ...

Sweet Alice celebrated her big third birthday recently, and since we decided not to have a backyard party this year, we wanted to plan s...

It's a subject that's been on my mind quite a bit lately, not just because we're getting ready for a new arrival ourselves, b...

Alice was born just before the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, and I remember being kept company many nights by late, late rebroadcasts of th...

A month or so ago, Alice and I were at the grocery store, picking up a few things for a picnic dinner to take to Concerts in the Park. ...

Although our little front-yard garden is happily producing lots of fresh veggies, we also enjoy the variety and, let's face it, nove...

Right now, it seems like every other family I know is expecting a baby. And I couldn't be more thrilled for them. Hooray for babi...

One of the first places I took Alice - after she was big enough to really take anywhere - was to  baby/toddler story time at the Chavez C...

In May, when the cherries ripen north and east of Stockton, workers arrive in vans and pickup trucks, pitch tents within the orchard...

A few days ago, I  took Alice to the Chavez Central Library to clear our fines (whoops) and to sign her up for this year's Summer Re...

KELLOG'S KID, Boy Scout, from the Gallery of the Haggin Museum Leyendecker Collection . Are you going to vote in today's primar...

A few weeks ago I came home from work to find a pair of mourning doves resting on the fence that separates our yard from the neighbor...

One of my earliest childhood memories is of eating sugar snap peas off a creeping vine in the backyard while my dad watered and pulled...

It took a few years for me to be convinced, but we finally decided to replace a big section of the front lawn with an edible garden. He...

We bought our house a little more than three years ago, and for about that long, my husband has been trying to talk me into replacing the...