On the way back from the supermarket the other day, I wandered into our local garden center. It had just been stocked with all the good things of spring after a long winter. Fresh herbs. Flowers. Baby lettuce shoots. Tomato plants. The smells were heady. I didn’t buy anything but resolved that I would come back a few days later and get started on a garden.

In my religious tradition, taking a bath is about a lot more than getting clean.

The tub is ready. Water just as hot as I like it. I slip in, whisper, Thank you. I'm not talking to myself or some anonymous cosmic energy, but to God.

Want to help your kids do their best in school? Physical activity may be the key.

A new study on middle-schoolers found a clear correlation between children who performed best on fitness tests to those who performed better academically.

It seems as though that old "mind-body connection" may be  demonstrating itself yet again.  So, now we can encourage our children to go outside and play after they finish their homework, and we'll know we're helping them...finish their homework.

This is not the story of a Mom and her bairn.  Or a story that began far across the pond in Lewes, Sussex and that continues here today in Asheville, NC; a small town nestled in blue mountains.

Instead, it is a series of small observations.

Since the birth of my son, it has become more and more important to me to remember the little (and often forgotten) moments.  In "A Life's Work", Rachel Cusk's brilliant, insightful and brutally honest account of motherhood she talks about