The Mommy Rant

hurricane gusts scatters yard with sticks and leaves blows summer away

Wishful thinking. song: Watch Your Step • artist: Elvis Costello

Best caution signs ever. song: Watch Your Step • artist: Elvis Costello

The Tao of my Twins: Lesson #8 Tis better to go out in one's pajamas, than not to go out at all. song: Get Ready • artist: The Tempt...

Doesn't anyone remember that we hated the Smurfs the first time around? song: Blue Bayou • artist: Linda Ronstad

It's ironic to drive two hours to take your kids to Canobie Lake Park only to arrive and find that the first ride said children want to ...

We picked up our two new mice at the pet store today. Even though the clerk asked them to send girl mice, it turned out there were boy mice...

Have fun at the class reunion guys. If only there were quarter-century superlatives. I'd vote Rene and Hadley in as "Most Courage...

Cell phones have rendered obsolete an entire genre of music - the telephone angst love song. You know the type, either the love-sick caller...

According to the Globe, a North Andover mom "wants to leave the earth a healthy place for her three children. But what good is a thrivi...

The gig. song: Thank You for the Music • artist: Abba

Despite the MFA's written appeals and signage admonishing visitors not to take flash photography or video at the museum, people were fla...

C and I saw the final Harry Potter movie today. It was my first time at the cinema pub in town. I like the concept but it just seems disres...

"You ain't fair" I said, you ain't fair."  "You're real nice, Uncle Jack, an' I reckon I love you even ...

Rather than the front yard, usually I steer my kids to the backyard to play. The reason being that it's easier to look out the back wind...

There's been some discussion surrounding the performance of two plays on the library lawn next week though not the kind of discussion th...

Always be careful of what you wish for. I was secretly hoping for a day off from swim lessons but thought it would come in the form of rain ...

Everything I learned this week I learned because of my kids. 1. The reason fish don't get killed when lightening strikes the water is be...

Seems like no coincidence that the final space shuttle flight and the final Harry Potter movie are taking place less than a week apart. The ...

Another summer season starts and so begins the jockeying for good parking spaces at Megansett. This year I plan to arrive early enough for ...